Garrett Hongo

Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born May 30, 1951

He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The River of Heaven (1988).

Early life Hongo was born in Volcano, Hawai'i. He 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.

Hongo has been awarded fellowships from the Watson Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. 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).

Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Garett Hongo, OCLC/WorldCat includes roughly 30+ works in 70+ publications in two languages and 4,600+ library holdings.

The Buddha Bandits down Highway 99 (1978) Yellow Light (University of California, Irvine, 1980; Wesleyan University Press, 1982, ) The River of Heaven (Knopf, 1988, ; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001, ) The Open boat: Poems from Asian America (1993) Volcano: A Memoir of Hawaiʻi (1995) Coral Road: Poems (2011) The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays (University of Michigan Press, 2017, ) The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo (2022)

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