Wing Tek Lum Explained

Wing Tek Lum
Birth Date:	11 November 1946
Birth Place:	Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Alma Mater:	Brown University Punahou School Union Theological Seminary
Genre:	Poetry
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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

• Book: Expounding the doubtful points. Bamboo Ridge Press. 1987. 978-0-910043-14-4 .
• Book: The Nanjing Massacres: Poems. Bamboo Ridge Press. 2012. 978-0910043885 .

Anthologies

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

External links

• "WING TEK LUM", Asian-American Poets
• Book: Asian-American poets: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook . Guiyou Huang . Emmanuel Sampath Nelson. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2002. 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mānoa: Lum Yip Kee Ltd. funds renovation of Shidler Graduate Reading Rooms University of Hawaii News. www.hawaii.edu. 2018-06-25.
2. Web site: NYQ Poets - Wing Tek Lum. hammond. raymond. www.nyqpoets.net. en. 2018-06-25.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=GGu-uwAACAAJ&dq=What+the+Kite+Thinks What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem
4. Web site: THE HAWAI'I LITERARY ARTS COUNCIL. www.hawaii.edu. 2018-06-25.