Stanley Plumly (May 23, 1939 – April 11, 2019) was an American
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...
and the director of
University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...
's creative writing program.
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. He taught the writing program at the University of Maryland.
Plumly died of
multiple myeloma
Multiple myeloma (MM), also known as plasma cell myeloma and simply myeloma, is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that normally produces antibodies. Often, no symptoms are noticed initially. As it progresses, bone pain, an ...
on April 11, 2019, in
Frederick, Maryland
Frederick is a city in and the county seat of Frederick County, Maryland. It is part of the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area. Frederick has long been an important crossroads, located at the intersection of a major north–south Native ...
, at the age of 79.
Bibliography
Poetry
Collections
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*''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)
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*''Old Heart'' (W. W. Norton, 2007)
*''Orphan Hours'' (W. W. Norton, 2012)
*''Against Sunset'' (W. W. Norton, 2016)
*''Middle Distance'' (W.W. Norton, 2020)
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As editor
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Nonfiction
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*''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
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Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is awarded for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Literary Trust. The value of the award is $30,000 (USD), and is said to be the largest annual cash prize for l ...
, 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
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Ingram Merrill Foundation The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retrie ...
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
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
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National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...
Fellowship on three occasions
* 1991 poet in residence at
The Frost Place
The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home on Ridge Road in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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References
External links
Faculty biography maintained by the University of MarylandStanley Plumly's Profile and a few poems at Academy of American Poets, Poetry.org website
* ttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_199505/ai_n8715417/ "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
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1939 births
2019 deaths
American academics of English literature
American male poets
Ohio University alumni
Poets Laureate of Maryland
The New Yorker people
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Wilmington College (Ohio) alumni
People from Barnesville, Ohio
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American poets
21st-century American male writers
Poets from Ohio
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
Deaths from multiple myeloma