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 www.davidwoo.info https://linktr.ee/davidwoo?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Read David Woo's essay "Poets of My Age and the Erotics of Influence" in the April issue of POETRY: https://bit.ly/4mMoprN
My thanks to Poetry magazine for publishing 3 poems, "The End of the Visit," "Gay Marriage," and "Innocence," and the essay "Poets of My Age and the Erotics of Influence." Go to the linktree in my bio. @poetry.foundation
If you're in NYC this week, come to our National Book Critics Circle finalists reading and awards ceremony. Most of the extraordinary poets nominated for the Poetry award plan to read their work and attend.
Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for Poetry!
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Poetry
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction
Meet the National Book Critics Circle 2025-2026 Emerging Critics Fellows! www.bookcritics.org/emerging-cri...
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.
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.)
Today's Weekly Read is "Word" by David Woo from Issue 5! 🖋️ @davidwoo.bsky.social Read the full poem: blreview.org/poetry/word/ #poetry
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.
Santorini, one of the loveliest places that I've seen, and we were lucky to visit before the summer crowds.
The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry is “Wrong Norma” by Anne Carson! #NBCCAwards @ndbooks.bsky.social
Delighted that People headlined our poetry winner Anne Carson (as well as Sandra Cisneros) in their article on our recent NBCC ceremony: people.com/see-the-full...
Sandra Cisneros, Anne Carson and More Among Winners of 50th National Book Critics Circle Awards — See the Full List
The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of their prestigious literary award during their annual ceremony on March 20. Founded in 1974, the NBCC, made up of over 800 editors and critics ...
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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!
NBCC’s Emerging Critics Fellowship is accepting applications for 2025-2026. Apply at nbcc.submittable.com. Deadline: Friday, May 9 at 11:59 PM Pacific.
A poem by NBCC board member and poetry chair @davidwoo.bsky.social appears in the anthology "A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025":
A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker by New Yorker Magazine Inc: 9780593801932 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy...
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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.
Grateful to be part of the unanimous vote of the board @bookcritics.bsky.social to sign this important statement:
National Book Critics Circle@bookcritics.bsky.social · 2y agoStatement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans:
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?'"
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
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!
