Wing Tek Lum (Chinese: 林永得; born November 11, 1946Honolulu, Hawaii) is an Americanpoet. Together with a brother he also manages a family-owned real estate company, Lum Yip Kee, Ltd.^[1]

He graduated fromBrown University in 1969, where he majored in engineering. He edited the university’s literary magazine.

He graduated from theUnion Theological Seminary, with a master's degree in divinity in 1973.He worked as a social worker, and metFrank Chin.In 1973, he moved toHong Kong to learn Cantonese.His work appeared inNew York Quarterly.^[2] Under the guidance ofMakoto Ooka, he participated withJoseph Stanton and others in thecollaborativerenshi poemWhat the Kite Thinks.^[3]

• 1970 Poetry Center Award (now known as the Discovery/The Nation Award)
• 1988American Book Award
• 2013 Elliot Cades Award for Literature^[4]

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

• 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.

• "WING TEK LUM",Asian-American Poets
• Guiyou Huang; Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, eds. (2002).Asian-American poets: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group.ISBN 978-0-313-31809-2.
• "One Should Not Sleep Anymore: Poet Wing Tek Lum and the Virtues of Unpleasantness": review by Ken Chen forNew York Foundation for the Arts

• American male poets
• 1946 births
• Writers from Honolulu
• Brown University alumni
• Punahou School alumni
• Union Theological Seminary alumni
• Living people
• People from Hawaii of Chinese descent
• American Book Award winners

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