Stanley Plumly
American poet (1939-2019)
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| Born | (1939-05-23)May 23, 1939 Barnesville, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | April 11, 2019(2019-04-11) (aged 79) 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.[2]
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"[3] and held Keats in very high regard.[2]
Plumly died on April 11, 2019, in Frederick, Maryland, at 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[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
References
- ^ "Stanley Plumly". Poetry.org. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ^ a b c Sandomir, Richard (2019-04-16). "Stanley Plumly, Lyrical Poet Influenced by Keats, Dies at 79". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ a b Foundation, Poetry (2024-02-06). "Stanley Plumly". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on April 14, 2019. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
- ^ "Middle Distance".
- ^ The Associated Press, September 29, 2009
- ^ Brittany Borghi, "Stanley Plumly receives Truman Capote Award", Iowa Now, July 1, 2015.
- ^ "Stanley Plumly - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2010-01-11.
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 Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Sherry Horowitz "Review of Stanley Plumly's book Old Heart: 'The Crystal Eye: The 'I' as a Prism' 2007
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