Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly (born 1939) is an American poet, who is professor of English and co-director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program.

The following two passages are extracted from The Longman Anthology of American Poetry (Page 431, ISBN 0801300460):

"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 ' [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15496 out-of-the-body travel] ', the major metaphor as well as the tile ot Plumly's finest collection (1977). In the same way, [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15494 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."

Life

His relationship with a married woman, Peggy Stevenson, in 2006-2007 caused the breakup of the marriage and alienation of the children from their father.

Education

Plumly received his Ph.D. from Ohio University in 1968.

Publications

Books

*"Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography" (W. W. Norton, 2008)
*"Old Heart" (W. W. Norton, 2007)
*cite book
last = Plumly
first = Stanley
title = Now that my father lies down beside me : new & selected poems, 1970 to 2000
publisher = Ecco Press
date = 2000
location = New York
url = http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=13&ti=1,13&SEQ=20060727181035&Search%5FArg=Plumly&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=25&PID=23954&SID=1
id = ISBN 0-06-019659-9
*cite book
last = Plumly
first = Stanley
title = The Marriage in the Trees

publisher = Ecco Press
date = 1997
location = Hopewell, NJ
url = http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=12&ti=1,12&SEQ=20060727181729&Search%5FArg=Plumly&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=25&PID=23954&SID=1
id = ISBN 0-88001-487-3
*cite book
last = Plumly
first = Stanley
title = Boy on the Step
publisher = Ecco/Norton
date = 1989
location = New York
url = http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=9&ti=1,9&SEQ=20060727172256&Search%5FArg=Plumly%2C%20Stanley&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=25&PID=22479&SID=1
id = ISBN 0-88001-228-5

*"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

Prizes

*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

Fellowships

*John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
*National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship on three occasions

External links

* [http://www.english.umd.edu/splumly/ Faculty biography maintained by the University of Maryland]

* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/103 Stanley Plumly's Profile and a few poems at Academy of American Poets, Poetry.org website]

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