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] He graduated from Brown University in 1969, where he majored in engineering.
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.
[2] Under the guidance of Makoto Ooka, he participated with Joseph Stanton and others in the collaborative renshi poem What the Kite Thinks.