Garrett K Hongo

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Occupation poet Partner Shelly Withrow Name Garrett Hongo Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Poetry		Alma mater University of Michigan Children Annalena Role Poet

Notable works The River of Heaven Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai\'i"" Notable awards Pulitzer finalist; Oregon Book Award; Guggenheim, NEA and Rockefeller Fellowships Education University of California, Irvine (1978–1982), University of Michigan, Pomona College Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, James Laughlin Award Books Coral Road: Poems, The River of Heaven, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawaiʻi, Yellow Light: Poems

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Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born 30 May 1951 Volcano, Hawaii) is an American poet and author.

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

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Awards

1990 Guggenheim Fellowship

National Endowment for the Arts fellowship

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

Garrett K. Hongo Wikipedia

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