Poet W.D. Snodgrass to Speak at Pitt April 7

PITTSBURGH—Poet W.D. Snodgrass will give an evening reading at the University of Pittsburgh campus as part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, at 8:30 p.m. April 7, Room 125, Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, Schenley Drive, Oakland. This event is free and open to the public.

A Wilkinsburg, Pa., native, Snodgrass was born in 1926 into a Quaker family. He was drafted into the Navy during World War II, and after the service, attended the University of Iowa's writers' workshop in 1947. By the mid-1950s, Snodgrass began publishing his poetry, and his first book, Heart's Needle (Knopf, 1959), won the Pulitzer Prize. Since then, he has published more than 20 poetry and essay compellations, including After Experience: Poems and Translations (Oxford University Press, 1968), The Death of Cock Robin (University of Delaware Press, 1989), De/Compositions (Graywolf Press, 2001), and most recently, To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2002).

Snodgrass has taught at Cornell University, Wayne State University, Syracuse University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Delaware, where he served as Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing. He currently resides in Upstate New York.

This is the final event of the 2004-05 Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, which is cosponsored by the Wyndham Garden Hotel-University Place, Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies, University Center for International Studies, The Book Center, and the University of Pittsburgh Press.

For more information, visit www.english.pitt.edu/events/pcws_schedule.html.

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