Celebration Tribute to Stanley Plumly and His COLLECTED POEMS (Zoom)

Stanley Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio, in 1939. He graduated from Wilmington College in 1962, and received his MA from Ohio University in 1968, where he also did course work toward a PhD.

Plumly’s books of poetry include Orphan Hours: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2013); Old Heart (W. W. Norton, 2007), a nominee for the National Book Award and a winner of both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize; The Marriage in the Trees (Ecco Press, 1997); Boy on the Step (HarperCollins, 1989); Summer Celestial (HarperCollins, 1983); Out-of-the-Body Travel (Ecco Press, 1977), which won the William Carlos Williams Award and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Giraffe (Louisiana State University Press, 1973); and In the Outer Dark (Louisiana State University Press, 1970), which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. In 2025, W. W. Norton released Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly, edited by David…