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.

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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 […]

Fall 2020

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“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)

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

on Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of...

Fall 2020

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“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)

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

on Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of...

Fall 2020

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Butterflies, Landscape, and the Black and White

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