Wing Tek Lum
American poet (born 1946)
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::summary American poet (born 1946) ::
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| name | Wing Tek Lum |
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| birth_place | Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| occupation | Poet |
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| 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.
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. Under the guidance of Makoto Ooka, he participated with Joseph Stanton and others in the collaborative renshi poem What the Kite Thinks.
Awards
- 1970 Poetry Center Award (now known as the Discovery/The Nation Award)
- 1988 American Book Award
- 2013 Elliot Cades Award for Literature
Works
Anthologies
References
References
- "Mānoa: Lum Yip Kee Ltd. funds renovation of Shidler Graduate Reading Rooms {{!}} University of Hawaii News".
- hammond, raymond. "NYQ Poets - Wing Tek Lum".
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=GGu-uwAACAAJ&dq=What+the+Kite+Thinks ''What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem''] on Google Books
- "THE HAWAI'I LITERARY ARTS COUNCIL".
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