He wrote without a pen or a pencil. He had no paper in prison. Only his mind to memorize hundreds of poems. Nguyen Chi Thien, an acclaimed Vietnamese dissident poet, spent 27 years in his homeland’s ...

Thien first ran foul of the North Vietnamese authorities in 1958 when he asked permission to start a literary magazine. The police searched his home and found some romantic poems that, they claimed, ...

The poet was a familiar figure, striding through Little Saigon, sipping tea, sharing wisdom, his head covered with his trademark fedora. He liked to read through the night, not too tired to dissect a ...

Recently, my friend sent me a surprise gift in honor of the new year. The gift was Ocean Vuong’s new book of poetry, “Night Sky with Exit Wounds.” I’d spent maybe 45 minutes back in December raving to ...

NGUYEN Chi Thien, a Vietnamese dissident poet, has died in a Santa Ana hospital in America after an acute illness. He was 73. He was one of Vietnam's longest-serving prisoners of conscience, having ...