Phebus

Phebus was a reverent Haitian lyric, a deft conjurer of language and light, a Cave Canem sister, an insistent glow.

Phebus Etienne is dead. : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Phebus and I crossed paths over a decade ago — we were both in a program tagging along with the dedicated folks at Teachers & Writers, going out to schools in New York City.

E.P. on P.E. : : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Phebus Etienne, the warm, effusive sister to everyone.

dead poets. : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Phebus places us in the moment, and lets us accept the sensation of ah.

E.P. on P.E. : : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Beautiful, aching poems that traced her childhood in Haiti, and in East Orange, NJ, with her mother who was a seamstress I believe, on top of her work at a factory, and who had died a few years prior, a loss that left Phebus alone, and inconsolable.

Phebus Etienne Lemon Hound 2007

Many of those poems appeared in journals over the years, and Phebus was particularly happy to have been chosen by fellow Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat, for the Beacon Best of 2000.

Archive 2007-10-01 Lemon Hound 2007

Many of those poems appeared in journals over the years, and Phebus was particularly happy to have been chosen by fellow Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat, for the Beacon Best of 2000.

Phebus Etienne Lemon Hound 2007

Beautiful, aching poems that traced her childhood in Haiti, and in East Orange, NJ, with her mother who was a seamstress I believe, on top of her work at a factory, and who had died a few years prior, a loss that left Phebus alone, and inconsolable.

Archive 2007-10-01 Lemon Hound 2007

I met Phebus in 2000, at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, where she was compiling her manuscript, much of which she had written while at NYU.

Phebus Etienne Lemon Hound 2007

I met Phebus in 2000, at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, where she was compiling her manuscript, much of which she had written while at NYU.

Archive 2007-10-01 Lemon Hound 2007