Ishion Hutchinson Explained

Ishion Hutchinson
Birth Place:Port Antonio, Jamaica
Occupation:Professor,[1] Poetry
Alma Mater:University of the West Indies,
New York University,
University of Utah
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Ishion Hutchinson is a Jamaican poet and essayist.

Biography

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, 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]

Awards and honors

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]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
List of poems
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The old professor's book2018September 17, 2018 . The old professor's book . The New Yorker . 94 . 28 . 37 .

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Five Questions for Ishion Hutchinson. 6 July 2015 .
  2. Web site: Ishion Hutchinson . The Poetry Foundation. 25 January 2014.
  3. Web site: University of Utah | Alumni Connection. ulink.utah.edu. 3 May 2017.
  4. Web site: This Year's Award Winners | Whiting Writers' Awards | Programs | Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation . whitingfoundation.org . 25 January 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140220013636/http://www.whitingfoundation.org/programs/whiting_writers_awards/this_years_winners/ . 20 February 2014 .
  5. Web site: Department of English at Cornell University | People. english.arts.cornell.edu. 25 January 2014.
  6. Web site: Ishion Hutchinson wins PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. Holly Bynoe. arcthemagazine.com. 13 August 2011. 25 January 2014.
  7. Julie Bosman, "10 Receive Whiting Writers' Awards", The New York Times, 21 October 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  8. Web site: Ishion Hutchinson Wins Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize. Geoffrey Philp. geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com. 17 May 2011. 25 January 2014.
  9. Web site: Hutchinson wins National Book Critics Circle poetry award . Daniel Aloi . Cornell.edu. Cornell Chronicle. 20 March 2017. 3 August 2017.
  10. Web site: Ishion Hutchinson. Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes . March 12, 2019 . March 13, 2019.