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By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com Guides to Poetry since 1997

James Whitehead (1936 - 2003)

Wednesday August 20, 2003
Poet & teacher James Tillotson Whitehead died suddenly on Friday, August 17th of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, according to obituaries in The San Francisco Chronicle & The New York Times.

He is remembered in an interview with his friend & colleague John Duval in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and by his former students at the University of Arkansas (whose writing program he founded with William Harrison & Miller Williams) in Ole Miss’ obituary.

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