Maryland Has New Poet Laureate

From Maryland At A Glance, part of the Maryland Manual Online:

"POET LAUREATE
Stanley Plumly, Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2009-.
On October 1, 2009, Stanley Plumly was named Poet Laureate of Maryland by the Governor. A Maryland Distinguished University Professor since 1998, Mr. Plumly founded the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, College Park.
He has written nine books of poetry, including Old Heart (2008); Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 (2000); The Marriage in the Trees (1997); Boy on the Step (1989); Summer Celestial (1983); Out-of-the-Body Travel (1977); Giraffe (1974); How the Plains Indians Got Horses (1973); and In the Outer Dark (1970). His work also includes Argument and Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry (2003), a collection of essays, and Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (2008).
Born in Barnesville, Ohio, May 23, 1939, Stanley Plumly received his B.A. in 1962 from Wilmington College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio University. "