{"id":15397,"date":"2022-10-05T12:50:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=15397"},"modified":"2022-10-05T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:50:23","slug":"please-join-us-garrett-hongo-author-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2022\/events\/please-join-us-garrett-hongo-author-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Please join us: Garrett Hongo author events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Tech welcomes poet, essayist, and audio writer Garrett Hongo for two events on Thursday, October 13, 2022. Hongo will share &#8220;The Mirror Diary,&#8221; a lecture about the invention of an ancestral writer, beginning at 1:30 p.m. in TJ Farr Room 308. He will read from <em>The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo<\/em>, at the Backdoor Playhouse starting at 7:00 p.m. in a free event open to everyone. These opportunities are sponsored by Center Stage and the TTU English Department.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett Hongo is the author of three collections of poetry, including <em>The River of Heaven<\/em>, which received the Lamont Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. <em>The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo<\/em>\u00a0is his most recent book of essays, about listening to music, sound engineering, and his Hawai\u2019ian and Japanese-American identity. He writes regularly for <em>SoundStage! Ultra<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact the campus host for this event, Dr. Erin Hoover, at ehoover@tntech.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Tech welcomes poet, essayist, and audio writer Garrett Hongo for two events on Thursday, October 13, 2022. Hongo will share &#8220;The Mirror Diary,&#8221; a lecture about the invention of an ancestral writer, beginning at 1:30 p.m. in TJ Farr Room 308. He will read from The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo, at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-15397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/10\/2022-10-04_633c8c8a1337d_Hongophoto.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15412,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397\/revisions\/15412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}