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Garrett Hongo Professor Poetry 541-346-0545 www.poets.org

Distinguished Professor of the College of Arts and Sciences. B.A., Pomona College; M.F.A., University of California, Irvine. Graduate studies in Far Eastern Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan and in Critical Theory at UC Irvine. Professor Hongo is the author of two books of poetry, Yellow Light (Wesleyan) and The River of Heaven (Knopf), which was the 1987 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. His memoir, Volcano, was published by Knopf, May 1995 and won the Oregon Book Award for nonfiction. He's the editor of The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (Anchor) and Under Western Eyes: Personal Essays from Asian America (Anchor). His poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Antaeus, Field, Georgia Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Parnassus, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Hawaii Herald, and The New Yorker. Professor Hongo was profiled in the PBS Television series "Moyers: The Power of the Word," and he's a recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. New work in poetry and nonfiction has appeared in Georgia Reivew, New York Times Magazine, and Hawaii Herald.

For 2005-2006, Hongo will teach undergraduate and graduate poetry workshops and seminars.

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Creative Writing Program
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