Kendel Hippolyte
Occupation: Playwright, Director
Coaching Period: WORRRD Up 2024, WORRRD Up 2023

Kendel Hippolyte

Kendel Hippolyte is a poet, playwright, director and sporadic researcher into areas of Saint Lucian and Caribbean arts and culture. His poetry has been published in journals and anthologies regionally and internationally.

He has taught poetry workshops in various countries and performed at literary events within the Caribbean and beyond. His latest collection is Wordplanting, and he is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, including Fault Lines, which won the Bocas Poetry Prize in 2013. Several of his publications are available in the library's collections.

For WORRRD Up 2023, Mr. Hippolyte hosted two successful poetry workshops on campus for all participants.

Poets coached by Kendel Hippolyte