What is Donald Justice?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Donald Rodney Justice | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1925|8|12}} | birth_place = [[Miami]], [[Florida]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2004|8|6|1925|8|12}} | death_place = [[Iowa City, Iowa]], U.S. | occupation = [[Poet]] | genre = Poetry, prose | subject = | movement = Formalism | awards = [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] <small>(1980)</small> | notableworks = ''Selected Poems'' | website = }} '''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 [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[English literature]] from the [[University of Miami]]. He also later studied at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill]], [[Stanford University]], and the [[Iowa Writer's Workshop|Iowa Writers’ Workshop]]. He taught at the [[University of Iowa]], [[Syracuse University]], [[Princeton University]], and the [[University of Florida|University of Florida-Gainesville]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2023-02-23|title=Donald Justice|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/donald-justice|access-date=2023-02-24|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en}}</ref> ''Selected Poems'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2023|title=The 1980 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/donald-justice|access-date=February 24, 2023|website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> ==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