Hongo...recounts his life through his evolving love of music and his obsession with the audio equipment he lusted after in order to get the precise sound he desired. Fifteen years ago, he recalls, when a CD player broke, he asked a friend’s advice about getting a replacement.

Every so often something comes along that changes everything. In childhood, the new kid gets a yo-yo, you go to a drive-in and there’s pizza during the intermission, the Beatles are on Ed Sullivan, and your father finally fires up the Dynakit Stereo 70 he’s been building...

A recording from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, August 2018.

At a panel at AWP in 2019, former students of Garrett Hongo shared their memories of his teaching. We’ve now collected these appreciations, along with a brand new poem from Hongo and a fantastic interview that Mark Jarman conducted in December 2019. Read more at Poetry Northwest [https://www.poetrynw.org/garrett-hongo-a-tribute/].