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

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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

Past Issues

Fall 2022

Fall 2022

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

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

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...

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

on Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu

on Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

on Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

on So Forth by Rosanna Warren

Du Bois for the Moment, Du Bois for the Millennium (on W. E. B....

on On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson

on Asked What Has Changed by Ed Roberson

on Aerial Concave without Cloud by Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Fall 2022

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

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

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...

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

on Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu

on Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

on Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

on So Forth by Rosanna Warren

Du Bois for the Moment, Du Bois for the Millennium (on W. E. B....

on On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson

on Asked What Has Changed by Ed Roberson

on Aerial Concave without Cloud by Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Fall 2022

Thao Nguyen

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Winter 2020

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Jerry’s Dirt

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

Jerry’s Dirt

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