Stanley Plumly, a nationally recognized and award-winning poet, will read a selection of his works Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 8 p.m., in Westminster College's Wallace Memorial Chapel.

Plumly readings will come from his most recent book, Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000.

Plumly, who was named Distinguished University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Maryland, received the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and was nominated for the Nation Book Critics Circle Award.

A of Barnesville, Ohio, Plumy spent his childhood in the lumber and farming regions of Virginia and Ohio. He is also the author of Marriage in the Trees and Boy on the Step: Poems.

This colloquium is the second in a series of five scheduled for the George Bleasby Colloquia, a series of literary events in honor of Dr. Bleasby, who chaired the Department of English at Westminster from 1954-75.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. David Swerdlow, associate professor of English at Westminster College, at (724) 946-7345 or e-mail dswerdlw@westminster.edu.