Ishion Hutchinson

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of two poetry collections: Far District (Peepal Tree Press, 2020) and House of Lords and Commons (FSG, 2016). He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among others.

poetry-magazineThe Anabasis of Godspeed

poetry-magazine“At nights birds hammered my unborn”

poetry-magazineBlack Space

poetry-magazine“A furnace in my father’s voice; I prayed for the coal stove’s”

poetry-magazineHomage: Vallejo

poetry-magazineA March

poetry-magazineThe Mariner’s Progress

poetry-magazineWheel of Fire

The Anabasis of Godspeed

“At nights birds hammered my unborn”

Black Space

“A furnace in my father’s voice; I prayed for the coal stove’s”

Homage: Vallejo

A March

The Mariner’s Progress

Wheel of Fire