Garrett K. Hongo

Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born 30 May 1951 Volcano, Hawaii) is an American poet and author.^[1][2]

He graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. in 1973, and from University of California, Irvine with an M.F.A. in 1980.^[3] He studied at University of Michigan.^[4] He teaches at University of Oregon.^[5]

Awards

• 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship ^[6]
• Lamont Poetry Prize

Works

• Yellow Light, University of California, Irvine, 1980; Wesleyan University Press, 1982, ISBN 9780819511041
• The River of Heaven Knopf, 1988, ISBN 978-0-394-56843-0; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-88748-358-5

Anthologies

• "from Cruising 99", The geography of home: California's poetry of place, Editors Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Heyday Books, 1999, ISBN 978-1-890771-19-5
• "Yellow Light", Bold words: a century of Asian American writing, Editors Rajini Srikanth, Esther Yae Iwanaga, Rutgers University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8135-2966-0
• "Kapu Tube", Hawaiʻi: true stories of the island spirit, Editors Rick Carroll, Marcie Carroll, Travelers' Tales, 1999, ISBN 978-1-885211-35-4
• "Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi", What book!?: Buddha poems from beat to hiphop, Editor Gary Gach, Parallax Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-938077-92-3
• Unsettling America: an anthology of contemporary multicultural poetry, Editors Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Penguin Books, 1994, ISBN 978-0-14-023778-8

References

1. "Garrett Hongo", Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian American Arts, Editor Amy Ling, Temple University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-1-56639-817-6
2. "Garrett Hongo", Asian-American poets: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook, Editors Guiyou Huang, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31809-2
3. http://uocatalog.uoregon.edu/liberalarts/Creative%20Writing
4. http://www.williamfwu.com/casual.html
5. http://uocatalog.uoregon.edu/liberalarts/environmental%20studies
6. Buying time: an anthology celebrating 20 years of the literature program of the National Endowment for the Arts, Editor Scott Walker, Graywolf Press, 1985, ISBN 9780915308729

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