The Writer’s Center welcomes students, colleagues and friends for a celebration of Stanley Plumly with a reading from Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly! Featuring readings and stories from poets Caroline Barnes, Julie Brigham, Ellen Cole, Joanne Rocky Delaplaine, Margaret Flaherty, Majda Gama, Jason Gebhardt, Claire McGoff, Pamela Murray Winters, Bonnie Naradzay, Susan Okie, Martin Shapiro, Katherine Smith, Martha Young Freedberg, Ellen Sazzman, and Joshua Weiner.
“Stanley Plumly is one of the most emotionally complex, sustaining and influential American poets of the last 50 years,” according to a W. W. Norton press release for the new Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly. “Born in 1939, Plumly wrote poems that explored the deep interiors of the human heart and mind against a wide backdrop of cultural and historical events. Profoundly personal yet socially astute, his work is both descriptively exact and allusive, engaging nature and art as well as family and friendship.
“For the two years before his death in 2019, Plumly worked with David Baker and Michael Collier, this book’s two editors, to make preparations for the present volume. Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly, published by W. W. Norton & Company, is the definitive collection of his works, containing nearly 300 of his poems—including nine new, previously unpublished ones. This book bears his gifts and specific blessing, embodying his wish to offer his poems in reverse chronology, tracing back from the present to the very origins of his aesthetic.
“Six years after his passing, Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly gathers the full range of Plumly’s talent as it charts the development of his unique and enduring contribution to the American lyric. In every way, it is the book Stanley Plumly wanted to be remembered by.”
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