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A nationally known poet will read from his works during a March 18 appearance at Mississippi State University.
The public presentation by Stanley Plumly begins at 8 p.m. in the Simrall Hall auditorium. His visit is sponsored by the University Honors Program and the College of Arts and Sciences' Academic Excellence Committee.
Plumly has written seven volumes of poetry, as well as hundreds of items that have appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, New York Times, and The Paris Review.
Some of his books include: "In the Outer Dark," "Out-of-the-Body Travel," "Boy on the Step," and "The Marriage in the Trees."
The Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships are among his writing honors. He also has received the Ingram-Merrill Foundation Award, six Pushcart Prizes, as well as nominations for the National Book Critics Circle and the William Carlos Williams awards.
Currently a professor of creative writing and poetry at the University of Maryland, Plumly also has taught at Columbia University and the universities of Houston, Iowa and Washington.
For more information on Plumly's MSU appearance, telephone Richard Lyons at (601) 325-2362.