W. D. Snodgrass has taught at various universities, among them Wayne State, Delaware and Syracuse. His first book of poems, Heart's Needle, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960, and he has received numerous awards and honors for his poetry, translations, and criticism.

Other poems by W. D. Snodgrass in Verse Daily:
June 14, 2004:  "Fortemente" "In the silent, scarcely holy night..."