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]

Wing Tek Lum
Born (1946-11-11) November 11, 1946
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
OccupationPoet
Alma materBrown University
Punahou School
Union Theological Seminary
GenrePoetry

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.
  • The Nanjing Massacres: Poems. Bamboo Ridge Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0910043885.

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

  1. "Mānoa: Lum Yip Kee Ltd. funds renovation of Shidler Graduate Reading Rooms | University of Hawaii News". www.hawaii.edu. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  2. hammond, raymond. "NYQ Poets - Wing Tek Lum". www.nyqpoets.net. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  3. What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem on Google Books
  4. "THE HAWAI'I LITERARY ARTS COUNCIL". www.hawaii.edu. Retrieved June 25, 2018.

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