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.
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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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