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

Spring 2023

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...

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

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

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

on A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero

on Are We Ever Our Own by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes

To Dare a Future (on The Letters of Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler,...

Auden in the 21st Century (on The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems,...

Fate, Nation, and Fatherhood: Formula 1 Emerges during a Pandemic in America (on Formula...

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Spring 2023

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...

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

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

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

on A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero

on Are We Ever Our Own by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes

To Dare a Future (on The Letters of Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler,...

Auden in the 21st Century (on The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems,...

Fate, Nation, and Fatherhood: Formula 1 Emerges during a Pandemic in America (on Formula...

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Spring 2023

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...