Los Angeles Times book prize winner to talk at OSU

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Arts and humanities lecture is free and open to the public on March 5.

By Katie Butler

(Feb. 17, 2009, STILLWATER, Okla.) – The recipient of the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry will deliver a reading at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, at Oklahoma State University.

American poet Stanley Plumly will read from Old Heart Poems, which also was a National Book Award Finalist.

The event is free and open to the public in the Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room at the Edmon Low Library in Stillwater.

Plumly also will talk at 11 a.m. on Friday, March 6, in the French Lounge of the OSU Student Union.

He is the director of creative writing and a professor at the University of Maryland. His work has been published in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Paris Review. His poems and essays have been selected for 40 anthologies.

Plumly is the recipient of many honors including the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from the New York University College of Arts and Sciences, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the author of 11 books including Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography.

Sponsored by the OSU English Department, the presentation is made possible by the
Arts and Humanities Lecture Series in the College of Arts and Sciences at OSU.
To learn more, phone (405) 744-9474.