Stanley Plumly (May 23, 1939 – April 11, 2019)[1] was an American poet and the director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program.

Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio in a working class family with a farmland.

His working-class upbringing on farmland would feature heavily in his poetry and books.

[4] He was called "the most English American poet"[2] and held Keats in high regard.

[3] Plumly died on April 11, 2019, in Frederick, Maryland, at the age 79 of multiple myeloma.