Thao Nguyen

Thao Nguyen is an artist, songwriter, touring musician, and producer based in Oakland, California. Her latest album, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down’s Temple, was released in May of 2020.

Thao Nguyen

Features

Song and Dance

You know, I think these days we would call it a mild stroke . . . yes, I think your dad had a mild stroke. Could that happen from […]

IN Spring 2022

Summer 2024

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

The Space Between Things

Architecture and Song

Just Is

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

on Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

on Fatal Attraction, created by Alexandra Cunningham and Kevin J. Hynes

on Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

Wildness in Contemporary Poetry (vs. Poetry about Wildness) (on Jeanne Heuving’s Mood Indigo and...

Making Scenes: Three Writers on Puerto Rican Syndrome (on Justin Torres’s Blackouts; Urayoán Noel’s...

on Sukun: New and Selected Poems by Kazim Ali

on The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature by Charlie Hailey

on Her Read: A Graphic Poem by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

Summer 2024

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

The Space Between Things

Architecture and Song

Just Is

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

on Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

on Fatal Attraction, created by Alexandra Cunningham and Kevin J. Hynes

on Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

Wildness in Contemporary Poetry (vs. Poetry about Wildness) (on Jeanne Heuving’s Mood Indigo and...

Making Scenes: Three Writers on Puerto Rican Syndrome (on Justin Torres’s Blackouts; Urayoán Noel’s...

on Sukun: New and Selected Poems by Kazim Ali

on The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature by Charlie Hailey

on Her Read: A Graphic Poem by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

Summer 2024

Thao Nguyen

Song and Dance

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...