Stanley Plumly Explained

Stanley Plumly
Birth Date:	23 May 1939
Birth Place:	Barnesville, Ohio, U.S.
Death Place:	Frederick, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation:	Professor
Language:	English
Alma Mater:	Wilmington College Ohio University
Genre:	Poetry
Spouse:	Margaret (Forian) 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.

Biography

Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio. He grew up in Ohio and Virginia. His father was a lumberjack and welder; his mother was a homemaker.^[2] His working-class upbringing on farmland would feature heavily in his poetry and books.^[3] His upbringing was influenced by Quakerism.

He obtained a BA at Wilmington College in Ohio and studied for, but did not complete, a PhD 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 from 2009.^[4] He was called "the most English American poet" and held Keats in very high regard.

Plumly died on April 11, 2019, in Frederick, Maryland, at age 79 of multiple myeloma.^[5]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• Book: Plumly, Stanley . In the outer dark : poems . Baton Rouge . Louisiana State UP . 1970 .
• 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)
• Book: Plumly , Stanley . Boy on the Step . Ecco/Norton . 1989 . New York . 0-88001-228-5 . registration .
• Book: Plumly , Stanley . The Marriage in the Trees. Ecco Press. 1997. Hopewell, NJ. 0-88001-487-3 .
• Book: Plumly , Stanley . Now that my father lies down beside me : new & selected poems, 1970 to 2000 . Ecco Press . 2000 . New York . 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.. June 2, 2008 . The New Yorker .
• Silent Heart Attack . The Atlantic Monthly. September 2003. 292. 2. 116 .
• Complaint Against the Arsonist. Summer 1992. Virginia Quarterly Review. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090501003002/http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1992/summer/plumly-complaint-against-arsonist/. 2009-05-01.
• Ploughshares . Sickle . Winter 1999 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160117002950/https://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4744 . January 17, 2016 .
• Ploughshares . Samuel Scott's A Sunset, With a View of Nine Elms . 1997–1999 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160117002950/https://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4352 . January 17, 2016 .
• Ploughshares . Snipers . Winter 1993–1994 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160117002950/https://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3592 . January 17, 2016 .
• Ploughshares . Dwarf With Violin, Government Center Station . Winter 1990–1991 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160117002950/https://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2866 . January 17, 2016 .
• Ploughshares . Dark All Afternoon . Summer 1980 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160117002950/https://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=914 . January 17, 2016 .

width=25%	Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Brownfields	2013	Plumly, Stanley . June 10–17, 2013 . Brownfields . The New Yorker . 89 . 17 . 82–83 .

As editor

• Book: Search Party: Collected Poems . Sebastian Matthews . Stanley Plumly. Mariner Books. 2005. 0-618-56585-X .
• Book: The new Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American poetry . Michael Collier . Stanley Plumly. UPNE. 1999. 978-0-87451-950-1 .

Nonfiction

• Book: Argument & song . Other Press, LLC. 2003. 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^[7]
• Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, 2015^[8]
• 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^[9]
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship on three occasions
• 1991 poet in residence at The Frost Place

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stanley Plumly. Poetry.org. 22 August 2012.
2. News: Sandomir . Richard . 2019-04-16 . Stanley Plumly, Lyrical Poet Influenced by Keats, Dies at 79 . 2024-02-06 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
3. Web site: Foundation . Poetry . 2024-02-06 . Stanley Plumly . 2024-02-06 . Poetry Foundation . en.
4. Book: The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. registration. Stuart Friebert . David Young. 2. Longman. 1989. 978-0-8013-0046-2. 431 .
5. News: Stanley Plumly, Maryland poet laureate who wrote of nature and memory, dies at 79. The Washington Post. San Francisco Chronicle. April 13, 2019. April 14, 2019. Matt. Schudel. April 14, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190414001949/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Stanley-Plumly-Maryland-poet-laureate-who-wrote-13765764.php. dead.
6. Web site: Middle Distance.
7. The Associated Press, September 29, 2009
8. Brittany Borghi, "Stanley Plumly receives Truman Capote Award", Iowa Now, July 1, 2015.
9. Web site: Stanley Plumly - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2010-01-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110603232359/http://www.gf.org/fellows/11600-stanley-plumly . 2011-06-03 .