When we met, the poet Tran Nam Phong hardly spoke about poetry, apart from exchanging pleasantries, yet he left a lasting impression on me because of his warmth and sincerity.
"Echoes of Waves" is the title of the poetry collection recently published (Literature Publishing House – October 2022) by Associate Professor, Doctor of Science, journalist and poet Nguyen Hong Vinh.
Poet Nguyen Quang Thieu, President of the Vietnam Writers Association, announced the passing of poet Ngo Van Phu, author of the poem "Clouds and Cotton," at his home at 3:15 PM on October 24th.
Poet Y Phương, a very distinctive figure of ethnic minority poetry in modern Vietnamese literature, passed away at the age of 74 at his home on the evening of February 9th.
The mystery surrounding the authorship of the legendary poem, still believed to be Russian and found in the notebooks of many young people in the 1970s, has only recently been revealed.
In the afternoons, on his rickety motorbike, Hoang Nhuan Cam would leisurely ride to visit his mother in the Dam Trau area before returning home, often buying a few blocks of tofu on the way back.
Many people doubted the quality of the three poems by Tong Van Han that won the B prize (the highest) in the Literature and Arts Newspaper poetry competition, but upon closer reading, the themes of the three poems are actually very good.
I am now like a stranger; amidst the village moon, the moon of my homeland; even on the thirtieth night of the Lunar New Year; I still long for the moon to appear.
Behind Olga Berggoltz's "Poem of Life," a work that has touched so many Vietnamese hearts, lies a passionate but unfulfilled love story, and many little-known secrets.
The poems by the two teachers from Ha Tinh and Nghe An provinces reveal the hardship, courage, and pain of the people of Central Vietnam in the face of forest fires.
The teacher's recitation of Quang Dung's poem "Tay Tien" to the accompaniment of rap music delighted the students and made them love Literature even more.
To mark the New Year 2018, the Imperial Household Agency of Japan released several New Year poems written by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in 2017, including one poem about Vietnam.
The poem "Rivers and Mountains of Southern Vietnam," originally considered the first declaration of independence of Vietnam, has now been translated differently and printed in the Grade 7 Vietnamese Language and Literature textbook, Volume 1.
Netizens believe that the poem "Greetings to First Grade" in the first-grade Vietnamese textbook (volume 2 - Education Publishing House) resembles a Russian children's song.