David Woo
@davidwoo.bsky.social
Poet and Writer. Books: DIVINE FIRE (Georgia Review Books/Univ. of Georgia Press) & THE ECLIPSES (BOA). Poetry chair, Board of Directors, National Book Critics Circle. he/him
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Lovely time in Minneapolis: statue of St. Francis, Donald Shepard (Como Park Conservatory); "Egret," Kitagami Seigyū (Minneapolis Institute of Art); Weisman Art Museum; Minnehaha Falls.
August 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Lovely time in Minneapolis: statue of St. Francis, Donald Shepard (Como Park Conservatory); "Egret," Kitagami Seigyū (Minneapolis Institute of Art); Weisman Art Museum; Minnehaha Falls.
Scenes from La Jolla: hang gliding at sunset, the Louis Kahn-designed Salk Institute, matcha tiramisu at Ee Nami Tonkatsu Izakawa.
July 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Scenes from La Jolla: hang gliding at sunset, the Louis Kahn-designed Salk Institute, matcha tiramisu at Ee Nami Tonkatsu Izakawa.
Video for our June 26th conversation on poetry criticism is available at this link: bit.ly/40qVIXJ
July 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Video for our June 26th conversation on poetry criticism is available at this link: bit.ly/40qVIXJ
Join us today, June 26, 6 p.m. ET, for a National Book Critics Circle discussion about poetry criticism!
June 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Join us today, June 26, 6 p.m. ET, for a National Book Critics Circle discussion about poetry criticism!
Join us Thurs., June 26, 2025, 6 p.m. ET, for Nat'l Book Critics Circle conversation with Anahid Nersessian, Stephanie Burt, & David Orr. Adam Dalva, Rebecca Morgan Frank, & I will introduce and ask questions. Link in linktree in my profile. (Quote: Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse, by Anahid.)
June 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Join us Thurs., June 26, 2025, 6 p.m. ET, for Nat'l Book Critics Circle conversation with Anahid Nersessian, Stephanie Burt, & David Orr. Adam Dalva, Rebecca Morgan Frank, & I will introduce and ask questions. Link in linktree in my profile. (Quote: Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse, by Anahid.)
Three distinguished poetry critics, David Orr (photo: Julie Prisloe), Anahid Nersessian, & Stephanie Burt join Adam Dalva, Rebecca Morgan Frank, and me for an online conversation about poetry criticism on June 26, 6 pm ET. Register at link in linktree in my profile. @bookcritics.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Three distinguished poetry critics, David Orr (photo: Julie Prisloe), Anahid Nersessian, & Stephanie Burt join Adam Dalva, Rebecca Morgan Frank, and me for an online conversation about poetry criticism on June 26, 6 pm ET. Register at link in linktree in my profile. @bookcritics.bsky.social
@bookcritics.bsky.social presents an all-star online conversation on poetry criticism with Stephanie Burt (photo: Steph Kloss), Anahid Nersessian, & David Orr on June 26, 6 pm ET. @adamdalva.bsky.social introduces, @poetmorgan.bsky.social and I moderate. Register at link in linktree in my profile.
June 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
@bookcritics.bsky.social presents an all-star online conversation on poetry criticism with Stephanie Burt (photo: Steph Kloss), Anahid Nersessian, & David Orr on June 26, 6 pm ET. @adamdalva.bsky.social introduces, @poetmorgan.bsky.social and I moderate. Register at link in linktree in my profile.
Santorini, one of the loveliest places that I've seen, and we were lucky to visit before the summer crowds.
April 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Santorini, one of the loveliest places that I've seen, and we were lucky to visit before the summer crowds.
The brilliant finalists for the NBCC poetry award. Join me on Wednesday as I emcee our reading in NYC for finalists in all categories. The awards ceremony is on Thursday. Tickets and details in the linktree in my bio. Buy tickets soon!
March 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The brilliant finalists for the NBCC poetry award. Join me on Wednesday as I emcee our reading in NYC for finalists in all categories. The awards ceremony is on Thursday. Tickets and details in the linktree in my bio. Buy tickets soon!
Delighted to appear in this majestic anthology edited by Kevin Young for @newyorker.com. This morning I encountered this copy in pride of place at the front of my favorite local (Phoenix) bookstore, Changing Hands.
February 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Delighted to appear in this majestic anthology edited by Kevin Young for @newyorker.com. This morning I encountered this copy in pride of place at the front of my favorite local (Phoenix) bookstore, Changing Hands.
Two years ago my partner and I drove from Phoenix to L.A. for a reading at this beautiful venue. In many decades of passing through the area, I had never seen the hills there look more lush and verdant. The atmospheric rivers that had deposited torrential rains were clearly unusual, and (1/2)
January 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Two years ago my partner and I drove from Phoenix to L.A. for a reading at this beautiful venue. In many decades of passing through the area, I had never seen the hills there look more lush and verdant. The atmospheric rivers that had deposited torrential rains were clearly unusual, and (1/2)
Many birthdays ago, that is, on this day sometime in the last century, I was a teacher in Beijing, passing the time with Wittgenstein, who wrote, "A poet has constantly to ask himself, 'But is what I am writing really true?' and this does not necessarily mean, 'Is this how it happens in reality?'"
January 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Many birthdays ago, that is, on this day sometime in the last century, I was a teacher in Beijing, passing the time with Wittgenstein, who wrote, "A poet has constantly to ask himself, 'But is what I am writing really true?' and this does not necessarily mean, 'Is this how it happens in reality?'"
In addition to chairing poetry, I was honored to serve on the two committees that selected the superb work by Lauren Michele Jackson and the five extraordinary biographies by Cynthia Carr, Jane Kamensky, Tiya Miles, Amy Reading, and Jean Strouse.
January 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In addition to chairing poetry, I was honored to serve on the two committees that selected the superb work by Lauren Michele Jackson and the five extraordinary biographies by Cynthia Carr, Jane Kamensky, Tiya Miles, Amy Reading, and Jean Strouse.
Congratulations to the poetry finalists: Oliver Baez Bendorf, Anne Carson, Jennifer Chang, Dawn Lundy Martin, & Carl Phillips; & our poetry nominee for the Leonard first book award, Cindy Juyoung Ok. I'm honored to emcee the finalists reading March 19; our ceremony is 3/20. @bookcritics.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Congratulations to the poetry finalists: Oliver Baez Bendorf, Anne Carson, Jennifer Chang, Dawn Lundy Martin, & Carl Phillips; & our poetry nominee for the Leonard first book award, Cindy Juyoung Ok. I'm honored to emcee the finalists reading March 19; our ceremony is 3/20. @bookcritics.bsky.social
I can't wait to tell you what we on the NBCC poetry committee decided for our top five and as our poetry nominee for the Leonard award for best debut. An extraordinary shortlist from an already amazing longlist. Look for our announcement on Thursday!
January 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I can't wait to tell you what we on the NBCC poetry committee decided for our top five and as our poetry nominee for the Leonard award for best debut. An extraordinary shortlist from an already amazing longlist. Look for our announcement on Thursday!
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Wind Shear” from Yard Show by Janice N. Harrington (BOA Editions). Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd #poetry (10/10)
January 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Wind Shear” from Yard Show by Janice N. Harrington (BOA Editions). Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd #poetry (10/10)
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “What to Say of the Entirety” from Wrong Norma by Anne Carson @ndbooks.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd #poetry (9/10)
January 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “What to Say of the Entirety” from Wrong Norma by Anne Carson @ndbooks.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd #poetry (9/10)
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Eshu or Ambition” from Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes (W. W. Norton) Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (8/10)
January 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Eshu or Ambition” from Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes (W. W. Norton) Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (8/10)
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Refrain” from Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips @fsgbooks.bsky.social @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (7/10)
January 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Refrain” from Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips @fsgbooks.bsky.social @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (7/10)
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Coming Out of the Shower,” from The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian @tinhouse.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (6/10)
January 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Coming Out of the Shower,” from The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian @tinhouse.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (6/10)
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Then Death Came Like a Hammer Not a Metaphor,” from Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat Books) Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (5/10)
January 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Then Death Came Like a Hammer Not a Metaphor,” from Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat Books) Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (5/10)
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Cliché,” from A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye by V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (4/10)
January 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Cliché,” from A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye by V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (4/10)
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Everywhere All At Once,” from Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat Books) @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (3/10)
January 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Everywhere All At Once,” from Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat Books) @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (3/10)
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Remnants,” from Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen @tinhouse.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (2/10, by book title)
January 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Remnants,” from Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen @tinhouse.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (2/10, by book title)
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Prodigal,” from An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang @twignoise @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (1/10, by book title)
January 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Prodigal,” from An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang @twignoise @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (1/10, by book title)