Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet To Speak
W.D. Snodgrass to read poems from two book collaborations
BUFFALO, NEW YORK – Canisius College will welcome Pulitzer Prize winning poet, W.D. Snodgrass to campus on Thursday, April 18, 2002. Snodgrass will read poems from two of his book collaborations, The Death of Cock Robin and W.D.’s Midnight Carnival. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 7:15 p.m. in the Regis Room, located on the second floor of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center.
A Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of Delaware, Snodgrass received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for his poetry collection Heart’s Needle. He has since published numerous books including After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches and Selected Translations, which last year received the Academy of American Poets’ Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
Most recently, Snodgrass published De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong. The book humorously illustrates why such well-loved classic poems, from William Shakespeare to William Stafford, are so remarkable by rewriting the poems - wrong. De/Compositions presents these rewrites next to the original poems so the reader can appreciate the artistry of the work, word by word, line by line and stanza by stanza.
For more information on the W.D. Snodgrass lecture, contact Dr. Jack D’Amico in the Canisius College English Department at (716) 888-2650.
Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares leaders – intelligent, caring, faithful individuals – able to pursue and promote excellence in their professions, communities and service to humanity.
A Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of Delaware, Snodgrass received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for his poetry collection Heart’s Needle. He has since published numerous books including After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches and Selected Translations, which last year received the Academy of American Poets’ Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
Most recently, Snodgrass published De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong. The book humorously illustrates why such well-loved classic poems, from William Shakespeare to William Stafford, are so remarkable by rewriting the poems - wrong. De/Compositions presents these rewrites next to the original poems so the reader can appreciate the artistry of the work, word by word, line by line and stanza by stanza.
For more information on the W.D. Snodgrass lecture, contact Dr. Jack D’Amico in the Canisius College English Department at (716) 888-2650.
Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares leaders – intelligent, caring, faithful individuals – able to pursue and promote excellence in their professions, communities and service to humanity.