Donald Justice

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.

Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.

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

Category:1925 births
Category:2004 deaths
Category:American poets