Wing Tek Lum


Wing Tek Lum 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.

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