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Garrett hongo biography
Garrett Hongo
American poet
Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born May 30, 1951[citation needed]) is a Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese American academic and poet. His work draws on Japanese American history and his own experiences.[1]
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.
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Career
Hongo is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon. From 1989 through 1993, he was the director of the university's Program in Creative Writing.
Hongo has published three books of poetry.
His first was Yellow Light (1982), and The River of Heaven (198