Stanley Plumly, Barnesville born American poet dies

Stanley Plumly, an American poet and director of the University of Maryland's creative writing program, died at his home in Fredrick, Maryland on April 11 at the age of 79. He was poet laureate for the state of Maryland from 2009 to 2018. A half-page biography on Plumly in the April 14 Washington Post attributed his death to multiple myeloma. Stanley Plumly was born in Barnesville on May 23, 1939. He spent his early years in Winchester, Virginia where his relocated extended Barnesville family owned and operated a lumber company – Park W...