Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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Little Music: Reading and Reflections

Mon, October 24, 2022
Dinner Program
Ishion Hutchinson

Author of two poetry collections, Far District and House of Lords and Commons, Ishion Hutchinson, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, will read from his works.

Mr. Hutchinson’s Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at CMC.

Photo credit: Neil Watson

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, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry 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 and teaches in the graduate writing program at Cornell University.

(Source: http://www.ishionhutchinson.com/)

Mr. Hutchinson’s Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at CMC.

Photo credit: Neil Watson

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