Stanley Plumly: Barnesville, O
The late Stanley Plumly was professor and director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Maryland. His writing includes books of poetry (Orphan Hours, Old Heart, Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me, The Marriage in the Trees, and Against Sunset); criticism, Argument and Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry; and a highly acclaimed biography, Posthumous Keats. His many awards include a Guggenheim and three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, and Maryland State poet laureateship.
