Walter K. Lew

Walter K. Lew (also known as Walter Lew) is a Korean American poet and scholar. He teaches in creative writing at the University of Miami.^[1] He is the author of the award winning book: Treadwinds: poems and intermedia texts.^[2]

Lew's translations and scholarship on Korean and Asian American literature have been widely anthologized and he was the first U.S. artist to revive the art of movietelling (live narration of silent films), beginning in 1982. Documentaries and news stories produced by Lew have been broadcast on CBS News, PBS, British ITV, and NHK-Japan, among other networks.

Works

• TREADWINDS: Poems and Intermedia Texts, Wesleyan University Press, 2002^[3][4]
• Excerpts from: ∆IKTH DIKTE, for DICTEE (1982), Yeuleum Sa (Seoul), 1991
• KÔRI: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction (Ed., Comment., with Heinz Insu Fenkl), Beacon Press, 2001^[5]
• CRAZY MELON and CHINESE APPLE: The Poems of Frances Chung (Ed., Comment.), Wesleyan University Press, 2000^[6]
• PREMONITIONS: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry (Ed.), Kaya Production, 1995^[7][8]
• MUAE 1 (Ed., Trans.), Kaya Production, 1995

Awards

• Asian American Literary Award, poetry category, The Asian American Writers' Workshop, 2003
• PEN Center USA Literary Award, finalist, poetry, PEN Center USA, 2002

See also

• 1995 in poetry

References