Stanley Plumly

Stanley Plumly (May 23, 1939 – April 11, 2019) was an American poet. He wrote many poetry collections. He was the director of the University of Maryland, College Park creative writing program. He was very fond of John Keats and many other British poets from the Romantic era. He wrote a book about Keats called Posthumous Keats, published in 2008.^[1]

Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio. He grew up in Ohio and Virginia.

Plumly died of multiple myeloma on April 11, 2019 in Frederick, Maryland. He was 79.^[2]