JAMES APPLEWHITE— member of the Fellowship of
Southern Writers — is the recipient of the 2001 Ragan--Rubin Award
from the North Carolina English Teacher ’s Association, the 1998
Brockman-Campbell Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, and
the 1995 North Carolina Award in Literature. He is a Guggenheim Fellow
and received the 1992 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
Jean Stein Award in Poetry. Applewhite has written nine books of poetry,
including the award-winning Daytime and Starlight and, most
recently, Quartet for Three Voices.