Dear friends,
Last Saturday,
July 29, the renowned poet Nguyeãn Chí Thieän spoke before a packed audience
(some standing outside in the sun) about his poetry and his life which has been
dedicated to freedom for the Vietnamese people.
On this day he
was joined by five men who survived the Communist prisons in
There was no
need for the 500 or more people who had gathered at Little Saigon Radio to see
the evidence of the forensic photo examination which proves he is the same man
who is in the
This
Sunday, August 6, Mr. Nguyeãn Chí Thieän will be signing his new book, Hoa
Ñòa Nguïc, the complete poems from 1957 to 1996, at Little Saigon Radio in
Houston,
The Vietnamese
language newspaper in Virginia, Suc May, has reportedly apologized
to Nguyen Chi Thien for its flagrant misunderstanding of American
tolerance. My thanks to the editor of Anh Döông, "Golden Pen"—the
author Thuan Ño—and to knowledgeable people in the Vietnamese
community who have explained to this newspaper's editor and publisher
that freedom of the press in
My own faith in
Americans is restored because of six men who stood up in
Jean Libby,
editor
VietAm Review
http://vietamreview.blogharbor.com
