Stanley Plumly (1939-2019) Remembered at University of Maryland

The Department of English at the University of Maryland remembers poet and professor Stanley Plumly, who died yesterday, writing:

It is with great sadness that we mourn Distinguished University Professor Stanley Plumly, who died on Thursday, April 11, 2019, of multiple myeloma.

Stanley Plumly (1939-2019) was born in Barnesville, Ohio and educated at Wilmington College and Ohio University, where he earned his PhD in English Literature.

He authored ten volumes of poetry, including Old Heart (2007), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and finalist for the National Book Award. His other volumes include In the Outer Dark (1970), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award; Out-of-the-Body Travel (1978), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems 1970-2000 (2000); and most recently Orphan Hours (2012) and Against Sunset (2017). He also authored four celebrated works of non-fiction, including Elegy Landscapes, Posthumous Keats, and An Immortal Evening, winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.

Plumly was a long-time contributor to Poetry magazine, and to the Kenyon Review, which has posted this page in memory of the poet. Read more about Plumly's life here, and celebrate his life and work.