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Stanley Plumly

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Born
May 22 1939
Died
1111 04 20192019
On May 23, 1939, Stanley Plumly was born to Herman and Esther Plumly in Barnesville, Ohio. Following Stanley's birth, the family moved from farm work to carpentry jobs and back to farm work in Virginia and Ohio. Plumly graduated from Wilmington College, a small work-study school in Ohio, in 1962. While he was in college, his writing talents were recognized and encouraged by the playwright-poet-teacher Joel Climenhaga. Plumly received his MA from Ohio University in 1968 and did course work toward a PhD at the same school.

The writer's father, who died at the age of fifty-six of a heart attack brought on by his chronic alcoholism, dominates the poet's work: "I can hardly think of a poem I've written that at some point in its history did not implicate, or figure, my father" . His mother also figures prominently as the silent, helpless witness of her husband's self-destruction.

Plumly's books of poetry include Old Heart ; The Marriage in the Trees ; Boy on the Step ; Summer Celestial ; Out-of-the-Body Travel , which won the William Carlos Williams Award and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Giraffe ; In the Outer Dark , which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography ; Argument & Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry .

He edited the Ohio Review from 1970 to 1975 and the Iowa Review from 1976 to 1978. He has taught at numerous institutions including Louisiana State University, Ohio University, Princeton, Columbia, and the Universities of Iowa, Michigan, and Houston, as well as at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1978 and 1979.

His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship , an Ingram-Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. He is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, he is Maryland's poet laureate.

Stanley Plumly

4.1/5 ( ratings)
Born
May 22 1939
Died
1111 04 20192019
On May 23, 1939, Stanley Plumly was born to Herman and Esther Plumly in Barnesville, Ohio. Following Stanley's birth, the family moved from farm work to carpentry jobs and back to farm work in Virginia and Ohio. Plumly graduated from Wilmington College, a small work-study school in Ohio, in 1962. While he was in college, his writing talents were recognized and encouraged by the playwright-poet-teacher Joel Climenhaga. Plumly received his MA from Ohio University in 1968 and did course work toward a PhD at the same school.

The writer's father, who died at the age of fifty-six of a heart attack brought on by his chronic alcoholism, dominates the poet's work: "I can hardly think of a poem I've written that at some point in its history did not implicate, or figure, my father" . His mother also figures prominently as the silent, helpless witness of her husband's self-destruction.

Plumly's books of poetry include Old Heart ; The Marriage in the Trees ; Boy on the Step ; Summer Celestial ; Out-of-the-Body Travel , which won the William Carlos Williams Award and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Giraffe ; In the Outer Dark , which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography ; Argument & Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry .

He edited the Ohio Review from 1970 to 1975 and the Iowa Review from 1976 to 1978. He has taught at numerous institutions including Louisiana State University, Ohio University, Princeton, Columbia, and the Universities of Iowa, Michigan, and Houston, as well as at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1978 and 1979.

His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship , an Ingram-Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. He is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, he is Maryland's poet laureate.

Books from Stanley Plumly

Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography

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Search Party: Collected Poems

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Old Heart: Poems

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Out-of-the-Body Travel

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Darker Fall: Poems

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Orphan Hours: Poems

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Mission Work: Poems

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Middle Distance: Poems

4/5 ( ratings)

The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb

4/5 ( ratings)

Boy on the Step

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Against Sunset: Poems

4/5 ( ratings)

The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews

4/5 ( ratings)

Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets

4.2/5 ( ratings)

New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected William Matthews

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Kenyon Review, July/Aug 2020

3/5 ( ratings)

Argument & Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry

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Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets

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Ploughshares Winter 1990-91 Guest-Edited by Gerald Stern

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