Walter K. Lew

Walter K. Lew is a Korean American poet and scholar who teaches in creative writing at the University of Miami.^[1] He has also taught creative writing, Asian American literature, and various East Asian literatures at Mills College, UCLA, and Brown, Cornell, and Yale Universities. Lew 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. Lew was the founding editor of the literary and scholarly press, Kaya Production (1993–96), where he published such books as R. Zamora Linmark's Rolling the R's, Kimiko Hahn's Unbearable Heart, Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual, and a reprint of Younghill Kang's East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee. Documentaries and news stories produced by Lew have been broadcast on CBS News, PBS, British ITV, and NHK-Japan, among other networks.

Works

• IMPERATIVES OF CULTURE: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era (Ed. with Christopher P. Hanscom and Youngju Ryu), University of Hawai'i Press, 2013^[3]
• TREADWINDS: Poems and Intermedia Texts, Wesleyan University Press, 2002^[4][5]
• EXCERPTS FROM: ∆IKTH DIKTE 딕테/딕티 for DICTEE (1982), Yeuleum Sa (Seoul), 1991
• KÔRI: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction (Ed., Comment., with Heinz Insu Fenkl), Beacon Press, 2001^[6]
• CRAZY MELON and CHINESE APPLE: The Poems of Frances Chung (Ed., Comment.), Wesleyan University Press, 2000^[7]
• PREMONITIONS: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry (Ed.), Kaya Production, 1995^[8][9]
• 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