This just in from the Associated Press:
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- W.D. Snodgrass, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who had a nearly 40-year teaching career, died at his upstate New York home after a four-month battle with inoperable lung cancer. He was 83.
His family said he died today at his home in Madison County, just east of Syracuse.
Snodgrass won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1960 for his first book, "Heart's Needle," which grew from heartbreak at losing custody of his daughter in a bitter divorce.
Although widely credited as a founding member of the "confessional" school of poetry, Snodgrass himself dismissed the label.
Snodgrass was the author of more than 30 books of poetry and translations.
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