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Garrett Hongo (born 1951, Volcano, Hawai'i) is a Japanese American poet. He has attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in English from the University of California at Irvine. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon, and directed the Program in Creative Writing from 1989 to 1993.

Hongo has published two books of poetry: Yellow Light (1982) and The River of Heaven (1988), which was a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His latest book, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i (1995), was awarded the 2006 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction. Hongo has also worked as an editor on Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays and Memoir by Wakako Yamauchi (1994) and on The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (1993).

Hongo has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

See also

Literature portal

• List of Asian American writers
• List of people from Hawaii

References

• Calabrese, Joseph, and Susan Tchudi, eds. Diversity: Strength and Struggle. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006. 20.
• Academy of American Poets bio (accessed March 2008)
• Modern American Poetry page (accessed March 2008)

Critical studies

1. Postcolonial Romanticisms: Landscape and the Possibilities of Inheritance in the Work of Jamaica Kincaid, Garrett Hongo and Derek Walcott By: Kamada, Roy Osamu; Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006 Jan; 66 (7): 2573. U of California, Davis, 2005. (dissertation abstract)
2. Spaces and Places in Motion: Spatial Concepts in Contemporary American Literature By: Schröder, Nicole. Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr; 2006. 257 pp. (book)
3. Garrett Kaoru Hongo By: Fonseca, Anthony J.. pp. 117-22 IN: Madsen, Deborah L. (ed. and introd.); Asian American Writers. Detroit, MI: Gale; 2005. xxiv, 460 pp. (book article)
4. Theorizing Difference in Asian American Poetry Anthologies By: McCormick, Adrienne; MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2004 Fall-Winter; 29 (3-4): 59-80. (journal article)
5. Cultural Recuperation in Garrett Hongo's The River of Heaven By: Sato, Gayle K.; Studies in American Literature (Kyoto, Japan), 2001 Feb; 37: 57-74. (journal article)
6. Beyond Lot's Wife: The Immigration Poems of Marilyn Chin, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, and David Mura By: Slowik, Mary; MELUS, 2000 Fall-Winter; 25 (3-4): 221-42. (journal article)
7. Twilight Conversations: Multicultural Dialogue By: Witonsky, Trudi. pp. 217-29 IN: Ghymn, Esther Mikyung (ed. and introd.); Asian American Studies: Identity, Images, Issues Past and Present. New York, NY: Peter Lang; 2000. xii, 265 pp. (book article)
8. Garrett Hongo By: Filipelli, Laurie. Boise, ID: Boise State U; 1997. 55 pp. (book)
9. An Interview with Garrett Hongo By: Colley, Sharon E.; Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature, 1996 Summer; 4: 47-63. (journal article)
10. The Volcano Inside By: Jarman, Mark; The Southern Review, 1996 Spring; 32 (2): 337-43. (journal article)
11. Garrett Kaoru Hongo By: Drake, Barbara. pp. 133-36 IN: Gwynn, R. S. (ed. and introd.); American Poets since World War II: Third Series. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale; 1992. xvi, 348 pp. (book article)
12. This Wooden Shack Place: The Logic of an Unconventional Reading By: Hull, Glynda; College Composition and Communication, 1990 Oct; 41 (3): 287-98. (journal article)