Daniel W.K. Lee

Poet

New Orleans, LA
Louisiana US
Email: 
strongplum@yahoo.com
Website: 
danielwklee.com
Twitter/X: 
@danielsaudade

Author's Bio

Born Lý Phụ Cường, (Originally 李富強, later changed to 李華強 in Traditional Chinese, 李华强 in Simplified Chinese) in Kuching, Malaysia, Daniel Wah Keung Lee was/is a third generation refugee going back to his grandparents on both maternal and paternal sides having been refugees from China to Vietnam; his Vietnam-born parents became refugees from Vietnam to Malaysia during the purge of ethnic Chinese during the late 1970s before settling in the United States. Daniel has one older and one younger sister. Raised in the western suburbs of Chicago (first in Forest Park, IL and later in Downers Grove, IL), Daniel moved to New York, NY in August 1996 and lived there until February 2014. He likes to say he is originally from Kuching, raised in Chicagoland, and grew the fuck up in New York City. Daniel relocated to Seattle, WA in March 2014 and after a little over five years in the Pacific Northwest, moved to New Orleans in December 2019.

Education: 
The New School MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
SUSPECT (Gaudy Boy, 2023)
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Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman (Squares & Rebels, 2019)
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Joys of the Table: An Anthology of Culinary Verse (Richer Resources Publications, 2015)
,
Verse/Chorus (Jamii Publishing, 2014)
,
Between: New Gay Poetry (Chelsea Station Editions, 2013)
,
In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself - Volume 8 (MW Enterprises, 2010)
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Multi-Culti Mixterations (CreateSpace USA, 2010)
,
Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems (Ragged Sky Press, 2009)
,
Poetic Voices Wthout Borders 2 (Gival Press, 2009)
,
The Queer Collection: Prose & Poetry 2007 (Fabulist Flash Publishing, 2007)
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Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2005)
,
I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004)
,
Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America (Asian American Writers' Workshop, 2000)
,
Time After Time (International Library of Poetry, 2000)
Book:
Anatomy of Want (Rebel Satori Press, 2019)
Journals:
Agenda
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And / Or
,
Asian Pacific American Journal
,
Berkeley Poetry Review
,
Bloom
,
Boiler Journal
,
Cape Rock
,
Chiron Review
,
Conclave: A Journal of Character
,
Dialogist
,
Diverse Voices Quarterly
,
Floating Bridge Review
,
Fourteen Hills
,
Gay and Lesbian Review
,
Gertrude
,
HIV Here & Now
,
Last Leaves Magazine
,
Lodestar Quarterly
,
Lynx
,
Mary
,
Modern Words
,
Mythium
,
Mythium Literary Journal
,
Narcolepsy Arms
,
Off the Rocks
,
Oxford Poetry
,
Psychic Meatloaf
,
RFD
,
The Rumpus
,
Shampoo
,
Suspect Thoughts
,
The Gallatin Review
,
The Plentitudes
,
Vice
,
Vox
,
Weave Magazine
,
White Stag Journal

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Agha Shahid Ali Audre Lorde Annapurna Potluri Schreiber Kazim Ali Miah Jeffra
What I'm reading now: 
Sukun by Kazim Ali

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American, Buddhist, Chinese American, LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Teachers, Teenagers
Born in: 
Kuching, SR
Malaysia
Sarawak
Raised in: 
Forest Park, IL
Illinois
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Last update: Mar 28, 2024