With a good (but short) biography, access to a full-text poem ("Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy"), and a catalog of lists to other Donald Justice exhibits on the Web, this page is a good starting point to begin your research on the award-winning poet.

Between the Lines: Interviews with Poets
http://www.interviews-with-poets.com/donald-justice/justice-note.html

At this Webpage, the online "interview" magazine Between the Lines talks with the writer about his life and work. Here you'll find an thorough biography, along with a link to a catalog of 11 full-text poems by the Pulitzer prize winning poet.

WashingtonPost.com: Poet's Choice
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/features/19980920.htm

At this page, you'll be able to view Robert Hass's short Washington Post article about Justice and the poetic form known as the "pantoum." After reading the article, be sure to read the online version of Justice's example, "Pantoum of the Great Depression."

BIOGRAPHY
Donald Justice (b. 1925) was born in Miami, Florida. He received a B.A. in musical composition from the University of Miami, an M.A. from the University of North Carolina, a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, where he studied with Paul Engle, Robert Lowell, and John Berryman. Justice began teaching immediately after graduation, holding positions at the University of Missouri, Hamline University, and the University of Iowa. His first book of poems, The Summer Anniversaries, published in 1960, immediately established him meticulous craftsman and was the Lamont Poetry selection for 1959. Justice criticized himself for the formal control of his early poems and worked toward a more natural style in his third collection, Night Light (1967). Justice perfected this new style in his seventh collection, Departures (1973), and the book was honored with the National Book Award. His next publication, Selected Poems in 1979, won the Pulitzer prize for poetry. In addition to his successful poetry, Justice has also published three books of essays, Platonic Scripts (1984), A Donald Justice Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (1992), and Oblivion: On Writers and Writing (1998). Justice taught English at the University of Florida from 1982 until he retired in 1992.