Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly’s work has been honored with the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Ingram-Merrill Foundation Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His most recent books are Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970–2000 (Ecco, 2001) and Argument and Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry (Handsel, 2003).

Published in VQR

• Cold Pastoral, Fall 2005
• Complaint Against the Arsonist, Summer 1992