Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly (May 23, 1939 – April 11, 2019)[1] was an American poet and the director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program.
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| Born | May 23, 1939 Barnesville, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | April 11, 2019 (aged 79) Frederick, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Wilmington College Ohio University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Spouse | Margaret (Forian) Plumly |
Plumly grew up in Ohio and Virginia and was educated at Wilmington College in Ohio and at Ohio University. He 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.[2]
Plumly died of multiple myeloma on April 11, 2019 in Frederick, Maryland, at the age of 79.[3]
Bibliography
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). Boy on the Step. New York: Ecco/Norton. ISBN 0-88001-228-5.
- Plumly, Stanley (1997). The Marriage in the Trees. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press. ISBN 0-88001-487-3.
- Plumly, Stanley (2000). Now that my father lies down beside me : new & selected poems, 1970 to 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)
List of poems
- "The Crows at 3 A.M." The New Yorker. June 2, 2008.
- "Silent Heart Attack". The Atlantic Monthly. 292 (2): 116. September 2003.
- "Complaint Against the Arsonist". Virginia Quarterly Review. Summer 1992. Archived from the original on 2009-05-01.
- "Sickle". Ploughshares. Winter 1999–00. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - "Samuel Scott's A Sunset, With a View of Nine Elms". Ploughshares. Winter 1997–1999. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - "Snipers". Ploughshares. Winter 1993–1994. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016.
- "Dwarf With Violin, Government Center Station". Ploughshares. Winter 1990–1991. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016.
- "Dark All Afternoon". Ploughshares. Summer 1980. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016.
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| Brownfields | 2013 | Plumly, Stanley (June 10–17, 2013). "Brownfields". The New Yorker. 89 (17): 82–83. | |
As editor
- Sebastian Matthews; Stanley Plumly, eds. (2005). Search Party: Collected Poems. Mariner Books. ISBN 0-618-56585-X.
- Michael Collier; Stanley Plumly, eds. (1999). The new Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American poetry. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-950-1.
Nonfiction
- Argument & song. 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[4]
- Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, 2015[5]
- 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 [6]
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship on three occasions
- 1991 poet in residence at The Frost Place
References
- "Stanley Plumly". Poetry.org. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- Stuart Friebert; David Young, eds. (1989). The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2 ed.). Longman. p. 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. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
- The Associated Press, September 29, 2009
- Brittany Borghi, "Stanley Plumly receives Truman Capote Award", Iowa Now, July 1, 2015.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2010-01-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
- 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
- Sherry Horowitz "Review of Stanley Plumly's book Old Heart: 'The Crystal Eye: The 'I' as a Prism' 2007
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