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Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly

Poetry Pavilion

4-4:30 pm

Book Signing

4:30-5 pm

 webcast

Stanley Plumly is the author of 10 collections of poetry, including In the Outer Dark (1970), Out-of-the-Body Travel (1977) and Old Heart: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2007). His works of nonfiction include his latest book, Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W.W. Norton, 2008). He is the recipient of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant and six Pushcart Prizes, among other honors. He edited the Ohio Review (1970-1975) and the Iowa Review (1976-1978) and has taught at numerous institutions across the country as well as at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (1978-1979). He is a professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park and lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Photo Credit: Elizabeth Stevenson

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