James Applewhite Explained

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.

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.

Works

• "Interstate Highway", poets.org
• Book: The made thing: an anthology of contemporary Southern poetry . registration . 16 . My Grandfather's Funeral. Leon Stokesbury . University of Arkansas Press. 1999. 978-1-55728-579-9 .
• Book: Daytime and Starlight. LSU Press. 1997. 978-0-8071-2150-4 .
• Book: Quartet for Three Voices. LSU Press. 2002. 978-0-8071-2774-2 .
• Book: A Diary of Altered Light. LSU Press. 2006. 978-0-8071-3127-5.
• Book: Selected Poems. Duke Press. 2005. 978-0-8223-3639-6.

External links

• "James Applewhite, Hearing 'Southern Voices'", NPR, September 25, 2005

Notes and References

1. Web site: James Applewhite . 2009 North Carolina Literary Festival.
2. Web site: Archive, 1971, September: Poetry: Roadside Notes in Ragged Hand . Harper's Magazine.
3. Web site: Preliminary Inventory of the James Applewhite Papers . Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
4. Web site: James Applewhite - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.