James Tillotson Whitehead (March 15, 1936 St. Louis, Missouri - August 16, 2003 Fayetteville, Arkansas) was an American poet.
He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B. A. in philosophy on a football scholarship, and a M.A. in English in 1960, and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with a MFA in Creative Writing.He taught at the University of Arkansas from 1965 to 2000.In 1986, he was a judge for the AWP Award.
He married Guendaline Graeber of Yazoo City on August 15, 1959; they had seven children.
Local Men, University of Illinois Press, 1979, ISBN 9780252007637
Actual Size Trilobite Press, 1985 (poetry chapbook)
Near at Hand, University of Missouri Press, 1993, ISBN 9780826208781
Joiner, Knopf, 1971, ISBN 9780394431437; University of Arkansas Press, 1991, ISBN 9781557282040 (novel)
The panther: posthumous poems, Editor Michael Burns, University of Arkansas Press, 2008, ISBN 9780913785126
For, from, about James T. Whitehead: poems, stories, photographs, and recollections, Editor Michael Burns, Photographer Bruce West, Moon City Press, 2009, ISBN 9780913785157