Ishion Hutchinson
Jamaican poet and essayist (born 1983)
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Ishion Hutchinson (born 22 August 1983)[2] is a Jamaican poet and essayist.
Ishion Hutchinson | |
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At UC Berkeley's Lunch Poems in 2023 | |
| Born | August 22, 1983 |
| Occupation | Poet Professor[1] |
| Alma mater | University of the West Indies, New York University, University of Utah |
Biography
Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica.[3] After attending Titchfield High School,[4] he received a BA from the University of the West Indies, an MFA from New York University, and completed graduate studies at the University of Utah.[5][3]
His poetry and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), Narrative, New Letters, Granta, Gulf Coast, The New York Review of Books, The Huffington Post, The Wolf (UK), Prairie Schooner,[6] Attica, Caribbean Review of Books, and the LA Review.[3]
He currently teaches courses in poetry and creative writing at Cornell University and serves as contributing editor to the literary journal, Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.[7]
Awards and honors
His first collection, Far District, published by Peepal Tree Press (UK), won the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry.[8] Hutchinson is also the recipient of the 2013 Whiting Award[9] and the 2011 Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize.[10] His 2016 collection, House of Lords and Commons, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.[11] He won a 2019 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry.[12] His 2023 collection, School of Instructions, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize.[13]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Collections
- Hutchinson, Ishion (2010). Far District. Peepal Tree. ISBN 9781845231576.
- Hutchinson, Ishion (2016). House of Lords and Commons. Macmillan. ISBN 9780374173029.
- Hutchinson, Ishion (2023). School of Instructions: A Poem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374610265.
- List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| The old professor's book | 2018 | "The old professor's book". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 28. 17 September 2018. p. 37. | |