Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly
Born (1939-05-23) May 23, 1939
Barnesville, Ohio
Occupation Professor
Language English
Nationality American
Alma mater Wilmington College;
Ohio University
Genre Poetry

Stanley Plumly (born May 23, 1939[1] in Barnesville, Ohio) is an American poet, who is professor of English and 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 title 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."[2]

Education

He graduated from Wilmington College (Ohio), and from Ohio University with his M.A. in 1968. He completed his PhD coursework at Ohio University and left in 1968, ABD. He is the head of the English department in the University of Maryland.

Publications

Books

Editor

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. [3]

Prizes

Fellowships

References

  1. ↑ "Stanley Plumly". Poetry.org. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Stuart Friebert, David Young, eds. (1989). The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2 ed.). Longman. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-8013-0046-2.
  3. ↑ The Associated Press, September 29, 2009
  4. ↑ Brittany Borghi, "Stanley Plumly receives Truman Capote Award", Iowa Now, July 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/11600-stanley-plumly
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