Thought for the Day

. . . what is this loneliness we long for in that someone /

no one else can be, . . .  /

but who was there, whatever the moment was?

~ Stanley Plumly

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Quoted from Stanley Plumly, "Planet" in American Poetry, November/December 2019, pg 22

Stanley Plumly (1939-2019), Award-Winning Poet and Prose Writer; Maryland Poet Laureate; Director, Creative Writing, University of Maryland at College Park

Stanley Plumly's posthumous collection of poems is Middle Distance (W.W. Norton, August 2020).

Profiles of Stanley Plumly at Academy of American Poets, Literary Hub, Poetry Foundation, University of Maryland Department of English