The 23rd Vietnam Poetry Day, themed "The Homeland Soars", will take place on February 12 (the 15th day of the Lunar New Year) in Hoa Lu, Ninh Binh Province. Poetry Day, a much-anticipated celebration ...

But I never read a line of Vietnamese poetry or knew what songs the Vietnamese sang when they were melancholy. I left that Vietnam and cared not if I ever saw the wretched country again.

Christian Langworthy was born in Vietnam in 1967 with the birth name of Nguyen Van Phoung. He came to the United States in 1975. He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a Schools of ...