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By Stanley Plumly Michael Collier
From the Winter 2019 Issue

Stanley Plumly (1939–2019) authored ten collections of poems and four works of nonfiction. Elegy Landscape: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime, his most recent book, was published by W. W. Norton in 2018. His many honors and awards include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Truman Capote Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. He was the founding director of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Maryland, where he had been a professor of English since 1985. Middle Distance, a collection of poems he finished before his death, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2020.

Michael Collier

Michael Collier is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently The Missing Mountain: New and Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2021). The Ledge (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2023, he was the Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford. Director emeritus of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, he taught for many years at the University of Maryland, College Park.