Stanley Plumly

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 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

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*''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)
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*''Old Heart'' (W. W. Norton, 2007)
*''Orphan Hours'' (W. W. Norton, 2012)
*''Against Sunset'' (W. W. Norton, 2016)
*''Middle Distance'' (W.W. Norton, 2020)

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As editor

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Nonfiction

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*''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

* Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
* Ingram-Merrill Fellowship
* 1973 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
* National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship on three occasions
* 1991 poet in residence at The Frost Place

References

External links

Faculty biography maintained by the University of MarylandStanley Plumly's Profile and a few poems at Academy of American Poets, Poetry.org website

* ttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_199505/ai_n8715417/ "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

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