Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly (born 1939 Barnesville, Ohio) is an American poet, who is professor of English and co-director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program.
"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 'out-of-the-body travel', the major metaphor as well as the tile ot Plumly's finest collection (1977). In the same way, 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."[1]
Life
His parents, Herman and Esther Plumly, lived in rural Ohio and Virginia. [2]
In October, 2009, Stanley Plumly became the State of Maryland's ninth Poet Laureate.[3]
Education
He graduated from Wilmington College, and from Ohio University with his M.A. and Ph D. in 1968.
Publications
- "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.
- "Sickle". Ploughshares. Winter 1999-00.
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{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Snipers". Ploughshares. Winter 1993–94.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - "Dwarf With Violin, Government Center Station". Ploughshares. Winter 1990–91.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - "Dark All Afternoon". Ploughshares. Summer 1980.
Books
- Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W. W. Norton, 2008)
- Old Heart (W. W. Norton, 2007)
- 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.
- Plumly, Stanley (1997). The Marriage in the Trees. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press. ISBN 0-88001-487-3.
- Plumly, Stanley (1989). Boy on the Step. New York: Ecco/Norton. 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)
- Argument & song. Other Press, LLC. 2003. ISBN 9781590510766.
Editor
- Michael Collier; Stanley Plumly, ed. (1999). The new Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American poetry. UPNE. ISBN 9780874519501.
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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
In 2009, Plumly was named Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland by Governor Martin O'Malley. [4]
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
- 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
- An essay by Stanley Plumly on Jane Campion's film Bright Star
References
- ^ The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2 ed.). Longman. 1989. p. 431. ISBN 9780801300462.
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- ^ http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/books/blog/2009/10/marylands_new_poet_laureate_st.html
- ^ The Associated Press, September 29, 2009