Wing Tek Lum
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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
Works
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Anthologies
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References
External links
- "WING TEK LUM", Asian-American Poets
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- "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