Stanley Plumly (May 23, 1939 – April 11, 2019) was an American poet and the director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program.

Biography

Plumly was born in Barnesville, 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. His upbringing was also influenced by Quakerism.

He graduated from Wilmington College in Ohio and taught for a number of years at Ohio University, where he helped found The Ohio Review. He taught the writing program at the University of Maryland from 1985 to 2009. He was called "the most English American poet" and held Keats in high regard.

Plumly died on April 11, 2019, in Frederick, Maryland, at the age 79 of multiple myeloma.

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

  • 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). . New York: Ecco/Norton. ISBN 0-88001-228-5.
  • Plumly, Stanley (1997). . Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press. ISBN 0-88001-487-3.
  • Plumly, Stanley (2000). . New York: Ecco Press. ISBN 0-06-019659-9.
  • Old Heart (W. W. Norton, 2007)
  • Orphan Hours (W. W. Norton, 2012)
  • Against Sunset (W. W. Norton, 2016)
  • Middle Distance (W.W. Norton, 2020)

List of poems

  • The New Yorker. June 2, 2008.
  • . The Atlantic Monthly. 292 (2): 116. September 2003.
  • . Virginia Quarterly Review. Summer 1992. Archived from on 2009-05-01.
  • . Ploughshares. Winter 1999. Archived from on January 17, 2016.
  • . Ploughshares. 1997–1999. Archived from on January 17, 2016.
  • . Ploughshares. Winter 1993–1994. Archived from on January 17, 2016.
  • . Ploughshares. Winter 1990–1991. Archived from on January 17, 2016.
  • . Ploughshares. Summer 1980. Archived from on January 17, 2016.
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Brownfields2013Plumly, Stanley (June 10–17, 2013). . The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 17. pp. 82–83.

As editor

  • Sebastian Matthews; Stanley Plumly, eds. (2005). Search Party: Collected Poems. Mariner Books. ISBN 0-618-56585-X.[better source needed]
  • Michael Collier; Stanley Plumly, eds. (1999). . UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-950-1.

Nonfiction

  • . Other Press, LLC. 2003. 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)

Honors

  • Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland
  • Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, 2015
  • 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 Award
  • Pushcart Prize on six occasions
  • Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence

Fellowships

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