James Applewhite
James Applewhite (born 1935 in Stantonsburg, North Carolina[1]) is an American poet, and a retired Professor Emeritus in creative writing at Duke University.
He graduated from Duke University with a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. His work appeared in Harper's.[2] His papers are held at Duke University.[3]
He lives with his wife in Durham, North Carolina.[1]
Awards
He is a 1976
Guggenheim Fellow.[4]
He won the 1998 Brockman-Campbell Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society.
He won the Jean Stein Award in Poetry, by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In 2008, he was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.[3]
Works
- "Interstate Highway", poets.org
- Leon Stokesbury, ed. (1999). "My Grandfather's Funeral". The made thing: an anthology of contemporary Southern poetry. University of Arkansas Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-55728-579-9.
- Daytime and Starlight. LSU Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8071-2150-4.
- Quartet for Three Voices. LSU Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8071-2774-2.
- A Diary of Altered Light. LSU Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8071-3127-5.
- Selected Poems. Duke Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8223-3639-6.
References
- ^ a b "James Applewhite". 2009 North Carolina Literary Festival.
- ^ "Archive, 1971, September: Poetry: Roadside Notes in Ragged Hand". Harper's Magazine.
- ^ a b "Preliminary Inventory of the James Applewhite Papers". Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
- ^ "James Applewhite - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
External links
- "James Applewhite, Hearing 'Southern Voices'", NPR, September 25, 2005
