Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly (May 23, 1939 – April 11, 2019) 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. His working-class upbringing on farmland would feature heavily in his poetry and books. His upbringing was influenced by Quakerism.

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. He was called "the most English American poet" and held Keats in very high regard.

Plumly died on April 11, 2019, in Frederick, Maryland, at age 79 of multiple myeloma.

Collections

 * 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)
 * Summer Celestial (Ecco/Norton, 1983)


 * Old Heart (W. W. Norton, 2007)
 * Orphan Hours (W. W. Norton, 2012)
 * Against Sunset (W. W. Norton, 2016)
 * Middle Distance (W.W. Norton, 2020)
 * Middle Distance (W.W. Norton, 2020)

Nonfiction

 * 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)
 * Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime (W. W. Norton, 2018)

Honors

 * Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland
 * 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