American poet (1939-2019)
Stanley Plumly (May 23, 1939 – April 11, 2019)[ 1] poet and the director ofUniversity of Maryland, College Park 's creative writing program.
Plumly was born inBarnesville, Ohio in a working class family with a farmland. He grew up in Ohio and Virginia. His working-class upbringing on farmland would feature heavily in his poetry and books.[ 2] Quakerism .[ 3]
He graduated fromWilmington College in Ohio and taught for a number of years at Ohio University, where he helped foundThe Ohio Review . He taught the writing program at the University of Maryland from 2009.[ 4] [ 2] [ 3]
Plumly died on April 11, 2019, inFrederick, Maryland , at the age 79 ofmultiple myeloma .[ 5]
Plumly, Stanley (1970).In the outer dark : poems . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP. How the Plains Indians Got Horses (Best Cellar Press, 1973)Giraffe (Louisiana Press , 1974)Out-of-the-Body Travel (Ecco/Viking, 1977)Summer Celestial (Ecco/Norton, 1983)Plumly, Stanley (1989).Boy on the Step ISBN 0-88001-228-5 Plumly, Stanley (1997).The Marriage in the Trees ISBN 0-88001-487-3 Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Brownfields 2013 Plumly, Stanley (June 10–17, 2013)."Brownfields" .The New Yorker . Vol. 89, no. 17. pp. 82– 83.
Argument & song ISBN 978-1-59051-076-6 Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W. W. Norton, 2008)The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner With Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb (W. W. Norton, 2014)Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime (W. W. Norton, 2018)Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland[ 2] Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism , 2015[ 7] John William Corrington Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, 2010 Beall Award in Biography from PEN, 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize, 2008 LA Times Book Prize, 2008 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, 1972 Ingram Merrill Foundation AwardPushcart Prize on six occasions Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence ^ "Stanley Plumly" . Poetry.org. Retrieved22 August 2012 .^a b c Foundation, Poetry (2024-02-06)."Stanley Plumly" .Poetry Foundation . Retrieved2024-02-06 . ^a b Sandomir, Richard (2019-04-16)."Stanley Plumly, Lyrical Poet Influenced by Keats, Dies at 79" .The New York Times .ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved2024-02-06 . ^ Stuart Friebert; David Young, eds. (1989).The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry 431 .ISBN 978-0-8013-0046-2 ^ Schudel, Matt (April 13, 2019)."Stanley Plumly, Maryland poet laureate who wrote of nature and memory, dies at 79" .San Francisco Chronicle The Washington Post . Archived fromthe original on April 14, 2019. RetrievedApril 14, 2019 . ^ "Middle Distance" .^ Brittany Borghi,"Stanley Plumly receives Truman Capote Award" ,Iowa Now , July 1, 2015. ^ "Stanley Plumly - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation" . Archived fromthe original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved2010-01-11 .Faculty biography maintained by the University of Maryland Stanley Plumly's Profile and a few poems at Academy of American Poets, Poetry.org website "A Conversation with Stanley Plumly", Lisa Meyer,Boston Review "Stanley Plumly: An interview",The American Poetry Review , May 1995, David Biespiel, Rose Solari "Bright Stars: Campion’s Film of and from Keats",Poems Out Loud , Stanley Plumly, 10.22.09 Archived 2014-10-29 at theWayback Machine Sherry Horowitz "Review of Stanley Plumly's book Old Heart: 'The Crystal Eye: The 'I' as a Prism' 2007
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