Donald Justice

Donald Rodney Justice
Born	(1925-08-12)August 12, 1925 Miami, Florida, U.S.
Died	August 6, 2004(2004-08-06) (aged 78) Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Genre	Poetry, prose
Literary movement	Formalism
Notable works	Selected Poems
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1980)

Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.

Justice got a B.A. in English literature from the University of Miami. He also later studied at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Stanford University, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He taught at the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, Princeton University, and the University of Florida-Gainesville.^[1]

Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.^[2]

Books

• The Old Bachelor and Other Poems (1951)
• The Summer Anniversaries (1960, 1981)
• A Local Storm (1963)
• Night Light (1967, 1981)
• Sixteen Poems (1970)
• From a Notebook (1971)
• Departures (1973)
• Selected Poems (1979)
• Tremayne (1984)
• The Sunset Maker (1987)
• A Donald Justice Reader (1991)
• New and Selected Poems (1995)
• Orpheus Hesitated beside the Black River: Poems, 1952-1997 (1998)
• Collected Poems (2004)

Related pages

• List of poets from North America

References

1. "Donald Justice". Poetry Foundation. 2023-02-23. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
2. "The 1980 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2023. Retrieved February 24, 2023.