Marilene Phipps

Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell (born 1950 Haiti) is an American poet, painter, and short story writer.

Life

Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell was born in Haiti and raised in Haiti and France. She studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from Pennsylvania University with an M.F.A..

Her work has appeared in Callaloo,^[1] Tanbou,^[2] and Ploughshares.^[3] She has donated paintings to the National Center of Afro-American Artists.^[4]

Awards

• 2000 Crab Orchard Review Poetry Prize
• 1999-200- Senior Fellowship, Center for the Study of World Religions. Harvard University.
• 1993 Grolier Prize for Poetry
• 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship in painting^[5]
• Bunting Institute
• Harvard University W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research^[6]
• Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions ^[7]

Works

• The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti. University Of Iowa Press. 2010. ISBN 9781587299216. 
• Crossroads and Unholy Water. Southern Illinois University Press. 2000. ISBN 9780809323067. 

Anthologies

• Walter Mosley, Katrina Kenison, ed (2003). "Mary-Ange's Ginen". Best American Short Stories 2003. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780618197330. http://books.google.com/books?id=O7Iua-SB1JUC&pg=PR5&dq=Marilene+Phipps+short+stories&lr=. 
• Kei Miller, ed (2007). New Caribbean poetry: an anthology. Carcanet. ISBN 9781857549416. 
• Ntozake Shange, ed (1999). "pink". The Beacon Best of 1999: Creative Writing by Women and Men of All Colors. Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807062210. http://books.google.com/books?id=yLrL-XTUuEkC&pg=PA82&dq=Marilene+Phipps+poet. 
• M. J. Fenwick, ed (1996). Sisters of Caliban: contemporary women poets of the Caribbean : a multilingual anthology. Azul Editions. ISBN 9781885214096. 

Reviews

Thus, Marilene Phipps focuses on voodoo themes but she paints incongruously in heavy dabs of oily impasto. An example is the somewhat-photographic composition of a man in white clothes paying his respects to the corpse under a sheet before a shelf loaded with statuettes and vases of flowers. The drawing is sound and the colors juicy but the general effect is perilously close to calendar art.^[8]

References

1. ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/callaloo/v018/18.2phipps_portrait.html
2. ^ http://www.tanbou.com/1199Poems.htm
3. ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1199
4. ^ http://www.ncaaa.org/ncaaanews.html
5. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=p&page=9
6. ^ http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/alumni-fellows
7. ^ http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/people/past/N-R.html
8. ^ VIVIEN RAYNOR (December 12, 1993). "ART; Urban Aspirations and Island Mysteries Assessed in the Bronx". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/12/nyregion/art-urban-aspirations-and-island-mysteries-assessed-in-the-bronx.html?pagewanted=2. 

External links

• "Author's website
• "Hope is an Act of Faith: An Interview With Marilene Phipps" Web del Sol

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