Associate Professor Ishion Hutchinson reads from his work in the seventh event of the Writers & Poets Reading Series. He selected his poem "Moved By the Beauty of the Trees" from his collection “House of Lords and Commons.”
Faculty in the Creative Writing Program recorded short videos throughout the Fall 2020 semester, each reading a selection from their own work. An exhortation by alumna Toni Morrison (M.A. ’55) was the inspiration for the project. Morrison famously wrote, “we speak, we write, we do language,” in considering the artist’s task in troubled times.
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of two poetry collections: “Far District” and “House of Lords and Commons.” He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among others. He is a contributing editor to the literary journals “The Common” and “Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.”
Ishion Hutchinson: www.ishionhutchinson.com/
"Moved by the Beauty of the Trees": poetrying.wordpress.com/2017/...
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"No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear" by Toni Morrison (The Nation, March 23, 2015): www.thenation.com/article/arc...
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