Stomping with Garrett
“Hongo’s connoisseurship arises as a kind of judicious and perceptive taste for the potential work and reach of beauty.”
—an appreciation by Major Jackson
All posts tagged: Garrett Hongo
GARRETT HONGO
Beaches
where there’s depth enough to swirl, pivoting,
buoyed in a silva-tint of waters
Interview // A Singing School: A Conversation with Garrett Hongo
Conducted by Mark Jarman
Garrett Hongo: A Tribute
Five essays on Hongo’s writing and teaching, an interview with Mark Jarman, and a new poem from Hongo.
To Shape Full-throated Songs: A Tribute to Garrett Hongo
“We all know how to hear, but Garrett makes us listen. Not just to the words, but to the music of poetry.”
by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Looking Into the Meat of the Word: An Appreciation of Garrett Hongo
“To be a former student of Garrett Hongo’s is to pay him tribute whenever you meet another writer, whenever you speak about writing, about poetry, whenever you teach, whenever you sit down to write . . .”
by Michelle Peñaloza
Eat the Fucking Body, or Brief Anecdotes from an Apprenticeship
“Hongo gives you an opportunity. It’s up to you to take it. And if you do, you’re either successful and the lessons continue, or they don’t. But at the very least, you always know where you stand.”
by Joshua Robbins
I don’t think you’re doing it right: Garrett Hongo & the Late Style of Humanity
“The work of the song, as Garrett sings it, is to unfold the true name of the thing.”
by Jeffrey Schultz
Interview // How a Phrase Will Find You: A Conversation with Michelle Peñaloza
by Jake Uitti | Contributing Writer