Name Ishion Hutchinson Role Poet | Books Far District: Poems | |
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Bards bars drafts featuring ishion hutchinson
Ishion Hutchinson is an award-winning Jamaican poet and essayist.
Contents
- Bards bars drafts featuring ishion hutchinson
- John freeman in conversation with ishion hutchinson and ernesto qui onez
- Biography
- References
John freeman in conversation with ishion hutchinson and ernesto qui onez
Biography
Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. 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. His poetry and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry Review (UK), Narrative, New Letters, Granta, Gulf Coast, The Huffington Post, The Wolf (UK), Prairie Schooner, Attica, Caribbean Review of Books, and the LA Review. His first collection, Far District, published by Peepal Tree Press (UK), won the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. Hutchinson is also the recipient of the 2013 Whiting Award and the 2011 Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize.
His 2016 collection, House of Lords and Commons won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.
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.
