William Dewitt Snodgrass, poet, died January 13 at his home in Erieville, NY. He was eighty-three. According to the New York Times, Snodgrass was born January 5, 1926, and grew up in Beaver Falls, PA. He earned bachelor and master’s degrees at the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa) where he enrolled in the Writers’ Workshop under the tutelage of Robert Lowell, John Crowe Ransom, Karl Shapiro, John Berryman, and Randal Jarrell beside other aspiring poets, Donald Justice, William Dickey, and Philip Levine. Snodgrass wrote over thirty books of poetry, criticism, and translation and taught at Cornell, Rochester, Wayne State, Old Dominion, Syracuse, and Delaware, from which he retired in 1994. The critic M.L. Rosenthal labeled Snodgrass as a “confessional” poet, writing in the Nation, “Snodgrass has built a moving poem out of something we treat far too casually: early divorce, in which it is the love between children and their parents that receives the deepest wounds.” Rosenthal’s confessional school grouped Snodgrass with Lowell, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Schwartz, and Anne Sexton. Snodgrass’s debut book, Heart’s Needle, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960.