{"id":470,"date":"2024-11-11T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T12:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=470"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:57:47","slug":"ishion-hutchinson","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/ishion-hutchinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishion Hutchinson"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of three collections of poetry: <em>Far District<\/em>, winner of the PEN\/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry 2011; <em>House of Lords and Commons<\/em>, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry 2016; and <em>School of Instructions<\/em>, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 and winner of the Rilke Prize 2025. His book of essays, <em>Fugitive Tilts: Essays<\/em> was published in 2025. His other awards include the Windham\u2013Campbell Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize. Awarded Jamaica\u2019s Gold Musgrave Medal for distinguished contributions to literature in 2021, Hutchinson is a co-founding member of the Global Black Initiative Collective at Cornell University where he is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities and a trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize. <em>Photo \u00a9 Marco Giugliarelli<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Far District, winner of the PEN\/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry 2011; House of Lords and Commons, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry 2016; and School of Instructions, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10772,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-470","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}