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<channel><title><![CDATA[Teresa Mei Chuc (Tu&#7879; M&#7929; Ch&uacute;c) - Blog]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blog]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:13:49 -0700</pubDate><generator>Weebly</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear by Trang Nguyen & Jeet Zdung]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/saving-sorya-by-trang-nguyen-jeet-zdung]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/saving-sorya-by-trang-nguyen-jeet-zdung#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 04:38:59 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/saving-sorya-by-trang-nguyen-jeet-zdung</guid><description><![CDATA[    I absolutely adore this book!   [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="https://www.tue-wai.com/uploads/4/0/9/6/4096858/img-5305_orig.jpeg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%">I absolutely adore this book! </div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pablo Neruda's Nobel Prize Speech, "Towards the Splendid City"]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/pablo-nerudas-nobel-prize-speech-towards-the-splendid-city]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/pablo-nerudas-nobel-prize-speech-towards-the-splendid-city#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 22:21:20 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/pablo-nerudas-nobel-prize-speech-towards-the-splendid-city</guid><description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! Ringing in the New Year with Pablo Neruda's Nobel Prize speech, "Towards the Splendid City:http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-lecture.html [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph"><font color="#d5d5d5">Happy New Year! Ringing in the New Year with Pablo Neruda's Nobel Prize speech, "Towards the Splendid City:</font><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-lecture.html" target="_blank">http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-lecture.html</a></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still, Poetry Will Rise  ]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/still-poetry-will-rise]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/still-poetry-will-rise#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2016 16:48:23 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/still-poetry-will-rise</guid><description><![CDATA[Article in the Atlantic"Still, Poetry Will Rise"&nbsp;Why Poetry is Viral in the Aftermath of the Election:&#8203;http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/still-poetry-will-rise/507266/ [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph"><font color="#d5d5d5">Article in the Atlantic<br />"Still, Poetry Will Rise"&nbsp;<br /><br />Why Poetry is Viral in the Aftermath of the Election:</font><br />&#8203;<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/still-poetry-will-rise/507266/" target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/still-poetry-will-rise/507266/</a><br /><br /></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Trudell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/john-trudell]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/john-trudell#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2016 23:53:33 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/john-trudell</guid><description><![CDATA["We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off." &nbsp;- John Trudell [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><font color="#d5d5d5"><font size="4">"We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off." &nbsp;- John Trudell</font></font></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coal by Audrey Lorde]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/coal-by-audrey-lorde]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/coal-by-audrey-lorde#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:06:09 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/coal-by-audrey-lorde</guid><description><![CDATA[Coal by Audrey Lordehttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42577 [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">Coal by Audrey Lorde<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42577">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42577</a><br /></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE SYMPATHIZER and NOTHING EVER DIES by Viet Thanh Nguyen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/the-sympathizer-and-nothing-ever-dies-by-viet-thanh-nguyen]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/the-sympathizer-and-nothing-ever-dies-by-viet-thanh-nguyen#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2016 04:00:32 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/the-sympathizer-and-nothing-ever-dies-by-viet-thanh-nguyen</guid><description><![CDATA[So grateful to meet&nbsp;Viet Nguyen&nbsp;and to hear him read from his books, THE SYMPATHIZER and NOTHING EVER DIES. Amazing reading and very interesting Q &amp; A afterwards. And Viet signed his books to Tu&#7879; M&#7929; Ch&uacute;c, my birth name, the one on my birth certificate...very special!&nbsp;   				 				 [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><font color="#8c48b7">So grateful to meet&nbsp;Viet Nguyen</font><span><font color="#8c48b7">&nbsp;and to hear him read from his books, THE SYMPATHIZER and NOTHING EVER DIES. Amazing reading and very interesting Q &amp; A afterwards. And Viet signed his books to Tu&#7879; M&#7929; Ch&uacute;c, my birth name, the one on my birth certificate...very special!&nbsp;</font></span></div>  <div><div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"></div> 				<div id='156076852431335562-gallery' class='imageGallery' style='line-height: 0px; padding: 0; margin: 0'><div id='156076852431335562-imageContainer0' style='float:left;width:49.95%;margin:0;'><div id='156076852431335562-insideImageContainer0' style='position:relative;margin:5px;'><div class='galleryImageHolder' style='position:relative; width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;'><div class='galleryInnerImageHolder'><a href='https://www.tue-wai.com/uploads/4/0/9/6/4096858/8264866_orig.jpg' rel='lightbox[gallery156076852431335562]'><img src='https://www.tue-wai.com/uploads/4/0/9/6/4096858/8264866.jpg' class='galleryImage' _width='400' _height='300' style='position:absolute;border:0;width:100%;top:-0%;left:0%' /></a></div></div></div></div><div id='156076852431335562-imageContainer1' style='float:left;width:49.95%;margin:0;'><div id='156076852431335562-insideImageContainer1' style='position:relative;margin:5px;'><div class='galleryImageHolder' style='position:relative; 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To inflect the inner silence, to give it body, that's all we're doing. You use the voice to make the silence present. The real subject in poetry isn't the voice. The real subject is silence. It's like in architecture, where the medium is not really stone or metal, but space. We use materials&mdash;brick, glass, whatever&mdash;to inflect the immaterial, space. I would say that the real medium of  [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><font color="#d5d5d5" size="3">Li-Young Lee:<br />&#8203;</font><br /><font color="#d5d5d5"><font size="3">"I feel the real medium for me is silence, so I could be writing in any language. To inflect the inner silence, to give it body, that's all we're doing. You use the voice to make the silence present. The real subject in poetry isn't the voice. The real subject is silence. It's like in architecture, where the medium is not really stone or metal, but space. We use materials&mdash;brick, glass, whatever&mdash;to inflect the immaterial, space. I would say that the real medium of poetry is inner space, the silence of our deepest interior."</font></font></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raised by Humans by Deborah A. Miranda ]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/raised-by-humans-by-deborah-a-miranda]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/raised-by-humans-by-deborah-a-miranda#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2015 01:42:35 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/raised-by-humans-by-deborah-a-miranda</guid><description><![CDATA[I looove and highly recommend Deborah A. Miranda's book of poems,&nbsp;Raised by Humans.&nbsp;        [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><font color="#d5d5d5">I looove and highly recommend Deborah A. Miranda's book of poems,&nbsp;</font><em><font color="#d5d5d5">Raised by Humans.&nbsp;</font></em></div>  <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="https://www.tue-wai.com/uploads/4/0/9/6/4096858/9677578_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brian Turner's extended interview with Tom McGuire in War, Literature and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/brian-turners-extended-interview-with-tom-mcguire-in-war-literature-and-the-arts-an-international-journal-of-the-humanities]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/brian-turners-extended-interview-with-tom-mcguire-in-war-literature-and-the-arts-an-international-journal-of-the-humanities#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 04:31:39 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tue-wai.com/blog/brian-turners-extended-interview-with-tom-mcguire-in-war-literature-and-the-arts-an-international-journal-of-the-humanities</guid><description><![CDATA[Brian Turner's extended interview with Tom McGuire in War, Literature and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities.Please click here to read:http://wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/27/McGuire.pdf    mcguire.pdfFile Size:  1745 kbFile Type:   pdfDownload File    [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><font color="#d5d5d5">Brian Turner's extended interview with Tom McGuire in</font><em><font color="#d5d5d5"> War, Literature and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities.</font></em><br /><br /><font color="#d5d5d5">Please click here to read:</font><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/27/McGuire.pdf"><font color="#8c48b7">http://wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/27/McGuire.pdf</font></a></div>  <div><div style="margin: 10px 0 0 -10px"> <a href="https://www.tue-wai.com/uploads/4/0/9/6/4096858/mcguire.pdf"><img src="//www.weebly.com/weebly/images/file_icons/pdf.png" width="36" height="36" style="float: left; position: relative; left: 0px; top: 0px; margin: 0 15px 15px 0; border: 0;" /></a><div style="float: left; text-align: left; position: relative;"><table style="font-size: 12px; font-family: tahoma; line-height: .9;"><tr><td colspan="2"><b> mcguire.pdf</b></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td>File Size:  </td><td>1745 kb</td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td>File Type:  </td><td> pdf</td></tr></table><a href="https://www.tue-wai.com/uploads/4/0/9/6/4096858/mcguire.pdf" style="font-weight: bold;">Download File</a></div> </div>  <hr style="clear: both; width: 100%; visibility: hidden"></hr></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>