Truong Tran

Truong Tran (b. 1969) received his MFA from San Francisco State University in 1995 in the field of writing and is the author of numerous volumes of poetry. He is a self-taught visual artist whose work has been exhibited in venues including the California Historical Society, California Institute of Integral Studies, SOMArts Gallery, Telegraph Hill Gallery, and the San Francisco International Art Market Art Fair. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at Mills College.

Art

Butterflies, Landscape, and the Black and White

Artist’s Introduction: On the performance of anger, or, answering the question “Why did you decide to become a visual artist?” Because language fails. It will betray you. In those times, you have no choice but to find a different way to look, to see what is happening around you. You have to find different ways […]

Influenza 1918

Across the Rock

Writing the Immigrant Southern in the New New South

The Citizenship Question, or, The Actors of Dearborn

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

The Gay Horizon

Among the Losses & Poetry Class, Ash Wednesday

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (wit...

Conjuring the Past: Cy Gavin’s Bermuda Paintings

on Census by Jesse Ball

on Loves You by Sarah Gambito

on Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison

on In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché

“What Else Might Be Available”: Three Contemporary Lineages of the Poetry Pro...

Post-Metamorphic: The Poetry of Modern Motherhood

on Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu

on Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li

Influenza 1918

Across the Rock

Writing the Immigrant Southern in the New New South

The Citizenship Question, or, The Actors of Dearborn

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

The Gay Horizon

Among the Losses & Poetry Class, Ash Wednesday

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (wit...

Conjuring the Past: Cy Gavin’s Bermuda Paintings

on Census by Jesse Ball

on Loves You by Sarah Gambito

on Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison

on In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché

“What Else Might Be Available”: Three Contemporary Lineages of the Poetry Pro...

Post-Metamorphic: The Poetry of Modern Motherhood

on Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu

on Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li

Truong Tran

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