Walter K. Lew

Walter K. Lew is a Korean American poet and scholar who has taught creative writing, East Asian literatures, and Asian American literature at Mills College, the University of Miami, UCLA, and Brown and Cornell Universities. Aside from the award-winning Treadwinds: Poems and Intermedia Texts,[1] Lew is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books and several special journal issues. He presently resides in Miami, FL and Queens, NY.

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 helped to develop and 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. He has often collaborated with visual artists, such as O Woomi Chung, Ashley Ford, and, most continually, the filmmaker Lewis Klahr.

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