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Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly was an American poet and the director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program.

Biography
Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio in a working class family with a farmland. He grew up in Ohio and Virginia. His working-class upbringing on farmland would feature heavily in his poetry and books. His upbringing was also influenced by Quakerism. He graduated from Wilmington College in Ohio and taught for a number of years at Ohio University, where he helped found The Ohio Review. He taught the writing program at the University of Maryland from 1985 to 2009. He was called "the most English American poet" ==Bibliography==
Honors
• Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland • John William Corrington Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, 2010 • Beall Award in Biography from PEN, 2009 • Paterson Poetry Prize, 2008 • LA Times Book Prize, 2008 • Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, 1972 • Ingram Merrill Foundation Award • Pushcart Prize on six occasions • Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters • John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence Fellowships • Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship • Ingram-Merrill Fellowship • 1973 John Simon Guggenheim FellowshipNational Endowment for the Arts Fellowship on three occasions • 1991 poet in residence at The Frost Place ==References==
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