Stanley Plumly

Biography

Stanley Plumly’s poetry collections include Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems 1970–2000 (Ecco, 2000) and Old Heart (Norton, 2009). He 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.

See Work

ESSAYS / Spring 2012

Whitman’s Compost

By Stanley Plumly
Winter 2007

A Place for People in Lyric Poetry

By Stanley Plumly
ESSAYS / Fall 2005

Cold Pastoral

By Stanley Plumly

Severn’s biographer and chief apologist, William Sharp, concludes that “throughout life Severn was a strange mixture of childlike vanity, genuine humility, high aims and ambitious efforts, with accomplishment often far short.” He adds that...

Summer 1992

Complaint Against the Arsonist

By Stanley Plumly