:Wing Tek Lum
{{short description|American poet (born 1946)}}
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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=6559|title=Mānoa: Lum Yip Kee Ltd. funds renovation of Shidler Graduate Reading Rooms {{!}} University of Hawaii News|website=www.hawaii.edu|access-date=2018-06-25}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/wingteklum|title=NYQ Poets - Wing Tek Lum|last=hammond|first=raymond|website=www.nyqpoets.net|language=en|access-date=2018-06-25}} Under the guidance of Makoto Ooka, he participated with Joseph Stanton and others in the collaborative renshi poem What the Kite Thinks.[https://books.google.com/books?id=GGu-uwAACAAJ&dq=What+the+Kite+Thinks What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem] on Google Books
Awards
- 1970 Poetry Center Award (now known as the Discovery/The Nation Award)
- 1988 American Book Award
- 2013 Elliot Cades Award for Literature{{Cite web|url=http://www.hawaii.edu/hlac/cadesaw.html|title=THE HAWAI'I LITERARY ARTS COUNCIL|website=www.hawaii.edu|access-date=2018-06-25}}
Works
- {{Cite book| title=Expounding the doubtful points| publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press| year= 1987| isbn= 978-0-910043-14-4 }}
- {{Cite book| title= The Nanjing Massacres: Poems| publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press| year= 2012| isbn= 978-0910043885 }}
=Anthologies=
- {{Cite book| title=Island fire: an anthology of literature from Hawaií| editor=James R. Harstad| publisher=Curriculum Research & Development Group, University of Hawai'i| year= 2002| isbn= 978-0-8248-2628-4 }}
- {{Cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/boldwordscentury0000unse| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/boldwordscentury0000unse/page/90 90] | chapter=Urban Love Songs| title=Bold words: a century of Asian American writing |editor=Rajini Srikanth |editor2=Esther Yae Iwanaga| publisher=Rutgers University Press| year= 2001| isbn= 978-0-8135-2966-0 }}
- {{Cite book| title=Growing up local: an anthology of poetry and prose from Hawaiʻi |editor=Eric Chock |editor2=James R. Harstad |editor3=Bill Teter| publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press| year= 1998| isbn= 978-0-910043-53-3 }}
- {{Cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/fireinseaanth00cowi| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/fireinseaanth00cowi/page/80 80] | chapter=Chinese Hot Pot| title=Fire in the sea: an anthology of poetry and art| editor=Sue Cowing| publisher=University of Hawaii Press| year= 1996| isbn= 978-0-8248-1649-0 }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101396393 "WING TEK LUM", Asian-American Poets]
- {{Cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwEtBiiphOoC&q=Wing+Tek+Lum&pg=PA225| title=Asian-American poets: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook |editor=Guiyou Huang |editor2=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson| publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group| year= 2002| isbn= 978-0-313-31809-2 }}
- [http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_current_detail.asp?id=17&fid=1&curid=861. "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
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Category:Writers from Honolulu
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Punahou School alumni
Category:Union Theological Seminary alumni