Applewhite, James

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Dates:
Birth 1935-08-08
Americans,
English,

Biographical notes:

Poet and professor emeritus of English at Duke University, Durham, N.C.

From the description of James Applewhite papers, 1963-2010. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 43533494

James W. Applewhite is a poet and professor emeritus of English at Duke University. He has published several books, including Statues of the Grass (1975), Following Gravity (1980), Foreseeing the Journey (1983), Seas and Inland Journeys: Landscape and Consciousness from Wordsworth to Roethke (1985), River Writing: An Eno Journal (1988), Lessons in Soaring (1989), Daytime and Starlight (1997), Selected Poems (2005), and A Diary of Altered Light (2006).

1958 B.A., Duke University 1960 M.A., Duke University 1960 1963 Instructor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1967 1971 Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1969 Ph.D., Duke University 1970 National Endowment for the Arts Award 1972 Assistant Professor, Duke University 1974 1975 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1975 Associate Professor, Duke University 1976 1977 Guggenheim Fellowship 1979 Associated Writing Programs Contemporary Poetry Prize 1982 1985 Director of the Institute of the Arts, Duke University 1986 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship 1988 Professor, Duke University 1992 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' Jean Stein Award in Poetry 1995 North Carolina Award in Literature 1995 Election to the Fellowship of Southern Writers 2008 Induction into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame 2009 Emeritus Professor, Duke University

From the guide to the James Applewhite Papers, 1963-2010, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

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  • American poetry
  • American poetry
  • Poets, American
  • Poets, American
  • Poetry

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  • United States (as recorded)
  • North Carolina (as recorded)
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