Books
- Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W. W. Norton, 2008)
- Old Heart (W. W. Norton, 2007)
- Summer Celestial (Ecco/Norton, 1983)
- Out-of-the-Body Travel (Ecco/Viking, 1977)
- Giraffe (Louisiana Press, 1974)
- How the Plains Indians Got Horses (Best Cellar Press, 1973)
- In the Outer Dark (Louisiana State, 1970)
Editor
Periodicals and Anthologies
Plumley's work has been published in
The Atlantic Monthly,
The American Poetry Review,
The New Yorker,
The New York Times, and
The Paris Review, among others. His poems and essays have been selected for 40 anthologies, including
From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright (2008).