Ishion Hutchinson | |
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 At UC Berkeley's Lunch Poems in 2023 | |
| Born | Port Antonio, Jamaica |
| Occupation | Poet Professor [1] |
| Alma mater | University of the West Indies, New York University, University of Utah |
Ishion Hutchinson | |
|---|---|
| At UC Berkeley's Lunch Poems in 2023 | |
| Born | Port Antonio, Jamaica |
| Occupation | Poet Professor [1] |
| Alma mater | University of the West Indies, New York University, University of Utah |
Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. [2] 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. [3] [2]
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 , [4] Attica, Caribbean Review of Books , and the LA Review. [2]
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. [5]
His first collection, Far District, published by Peepal Tree Press (UK), won the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. [6] Hutchinson is also the recipient of the 2013 Whiting Award [7] and the 2011 Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize. [8] His 2016 collection, House of Lords and Commons, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. [9] He won a 2019 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry. [10] His 2023 collection, School of Instructions, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. [11]
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| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| The old professor's book | 2018 | "The old professor's book". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 28. 17 September 2018. p. 37. | |
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