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POSTPONED: Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson

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Due to uncertainty around COVID-19, the Hammer is temporarily closed to the public and this program has been postponed. For COVID-19 updates impacting the UCLA community, please visit UCLA’s Newsroom.

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of two poetry collections, Far District and the “ragged and fiercely beautiful” (NPR) House of Lords and Commons. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Whiting Award. He teaches writing at Cornell and is a contributing editor to the literary journals The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.

Organized and hosted by poet, literary critic, and UCLA distinguished service professor Stephen Yenser. Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Recreational Affairs.

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