Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly
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Born	(1939-05-23) May 23, 1939 Barnesville, Ohio
Occupation	Professor
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Wilmington College; Ohio University
Genre	Poetry

Stanley Plumly (born May 23, 1939 in Barnesville, Ohio) is an American poet, who is professor of English and director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program.

"This poet hymns unlikely things, finding beauty and grace where they were overlooked, so that a frightful contraption like an iron lung can become a miraculous vehicle for 'out-of-the-body travel', the major metaphor as well as the tile ot Plumly's finest collection (1977). In the same way, wildflowers we may have scarely noticed, like meadow-rue and peppergrass, are shown to have the same kind of unlikely and stirring beauty. Stirring, perhaps, because unlikely, rescued from a modest oblivion to enhance our sense of life.

Stanley 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, and he has been a visiting writer at a number of other institutions, including Iowa, Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Washington. At present, he teaches in the writing program at the University of Maryland."

Education

He graduated from Wilmington College (Ohio), and from Ohio University with his M.A. in 1968. He completed his PhD coursework at Ohio University and left in 1968, ABD. He is the head of the English department in the University of Maryland.

Publications

Books

• The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner With Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb (W. W. Norton, 2014)
• Orphan Hours (W. W. Norton, 2012)
• Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W. W. Norton, 2008)
• Old Heart (W. W. Norton, 2007)
• Summer Celestial (Ecco/Norton, 1983)
• Out-of-the-Body Travel (Ecco/Viking, 1977)
• Giraffe (Louisiana Press, 1974)
• How the Plains Indians Got Horses (Best Cellar Press, 1973)
• In the Outer Dark (Louisiana State, 1970)

Periodicals and Anthologies

Plumley's work has been published in The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Paris Review, among others. His poems and essays have been selected for 40 anthologies, including From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright (2008).

Honors

In 2009, Plumly was named Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland by Governor Martin O'Malley.

Prizes

• 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

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