Wing Tek Lum

Wing Tek Lum (Chinese: 林永得; born November 11, 1946 Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American poet. Together with a brother he also manages a family-owned real estate company, Lum Yip Kee, Ltd.^[1]

Life[]

He graduated from Brown University in 1969, where he majored in engineering. He edited the university’s literary magazine.

He graduated from the Union Theological Seminary, with a master's degree in divinity in 1973. He worked as a social worker, and met Frank Chin. In 1973, he moved to Hong Kong to learn Cantonese. His work appeared in New York Quarterly.^[2] Under the guidance of Makoto Ooka, he participated with Joseph Stanton and others in the collaborative renshi poem What the Kite Thinks.^[3]

Awards[]

• 1970 Poetry Center Award (now known as the Discovery/The Nation Award)
• 1988 American Book Award
• 2013 Elliot Cades Award for Literature^[4]

Works[]

• Expounding the doubtful points. Bamboo Ridge Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-910043-14-4.

Anthologies[]

• James R. Harstad, ed. (2002). Island fire: an anthology of literature from Hawaií. Curriculum Research & Development Group, University of Hawai'i. ISBN 978-0-8248-2628-4.
• Rajini Srikanth; Esther Yae Iwanaga, eds. (2001). "Urban Love Songs". Bold words: a century of Asian American writing. Rutgers University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-8135-2966-0.
• Eric Chock; James R. Harstad; Bill Teter, eds. (1998). Growing up local: an anthology of poetry and prose from Hawaiʻi. Bamboo Ridge Press. ISBN 978-0-910043-53-3.
• Sue Cowing, ed. (1996). "Chinese Hot Pot". Fire in the sea: an anthology of poetry and art. University of Hawaii Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-8248-1649-0.

References[]

External links[]

• "WING TEK LUM", Asian-American Poets
• Guiyou Huang; Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, eds. (2002). Asian-American poets: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31809-2.
• "One Should Not Sleep Anymore: Poet Wing Tek Lum and the Virtues of Unpleasantness": review by Ken Chen for New York Foundation for the Arts