Stanley Plumly
American poet (1939–2019)
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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.
Stanley Plumly | |
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 Plumly in 2013 | |
| Born | May 23, 1939 Barnesville, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | April 11, 2019 (aged 79) Frederick, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Wilmington College Ohio University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Spouse | Margaret (Forian) Plumly |
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.[2] His upbringing was also influenced by Quakerism.[3]
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.[4] He was called "the most English American poet"[2] and held Keats in high regard.[3]
Plumly died on April 11, 2019, in Frederick, Maryland, at the age 79 of multiple myeloma.[5]
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). 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)
- Middle Distance (W.W. Norton, 2020)[6]
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. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016.
- "Samuel Scott's A Sunset, With a View of Nine Elms". Ploughshares. 1997–1999. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016.
- "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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brownfields | 2013 | Plumly, Stanley (June 10–17, 2013). "Brownfields". 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). 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[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 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[8]
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship on three occasions
- 1991 poet in residence at The Frost Place