Applewhite, James

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)