Marilene Phipps

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

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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]

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Works

Anthologies

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. 

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