TLS; 1 page, July 30, 1976 to poet and editor of Voyages, William Claire.
Snodgrass notes that he is getting an award from the Romanian Embassy; so will be in Washington, DC and would like Claire to arrange a reading at the Smithsonian. Item #52379
Snodgrass won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for his poetry collection: Heart's Needle (1959). W. D. Snodgrass was born on January 5, 1926 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Snodgrass's first poems appeared in 1951, and throughout the 1950s he published in some of the most prestigious magazines: Botteghe Oscure, Partisan Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The Hudson Review. However, in 1957, five sections from a sequence entitled 'Heart's Needle' were included in Hall, Pack and Simpson's anthology, New Poets of England and America, By the time Heart's Needle was published, in 1959, Snodgrass had already won The Hudson Review Fellowship in Poetry and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Poetry Prize.
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