Ishion Hutchinson

Biography

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His poetry collection, Far District (Peepal Tree, 2010), won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and the Academy of American Poets’ Larry Levis Prize. He is an assistant professor of English at Cornell University. 

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INTERVIEWS / Winter 2015

A Voice at the Edge of the Sea

By Ishion Hutchinson

Joseph Brodsky—the Joseph addressed in the epigraph—once said that when you hear Derek Walcott’s voice, “the world unravels.” It is a voice concomitant with the sea, and by connection, history.

Danielle Devaux (Courtesy of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)