David Woo

1/ Excited that my essay on @PoetKimHyesoon's "Phantom Pain Wings" translated by @DonMeeChoi is up at @On_The_Seawall. My colleagues and I @bookcritics selected PPW as the best poetry book of 2023. Last year, ronslate.com/on-phantom-pai…

Each year, the NBCC members elect a third of the 24 person board of directors. The directors selected in this election will serve from 2025 to 2028. Any member in good standing may run for the NBCC board. Candidates: your statements are due by midnight Pacific on Friday, Oct 18.

NBCC board member @DavidWooPoet wrote about seven poetry books, including titles by Janice N. Harrington, Jennifer Chang, and Idra Novey, for @LitHub: buff.ly/4duyOlM

Reviews of poetry by Jennifer Chang @CopperCanyonPrs Janice N. Harrington @boaeditions Matthew Hollis @BloodaxeBooks Idra Novey @weslpress Jimin Seo @changes_press Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon @UPittPress Jordan Windholz @BlackOceanOrg

“[this is what happens] when we love a little Black girl well" - Maya Moore, 🏀🐐 the Lenore Marshall recognizes the "Most outstanding collection in the U. S. in 2023." My *very first* book. The book I wrote at 23 yrs old. thank u Mom & Dad. thank u God & home & blk poetry.

The other nominees that we selected are both superb: Terrance Hayes's Watch Your Language and Roger Reeves's Dark Days.

Delighted to be one of the judges of the Pegasus Award @PoetryFound that selected Elizabeth Sarah Coles's dazzling "Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist" @OxUniPress as the best work of poetry criticism for 2024. Go here to see my praise of the book: poetryfoundation.org/awards/critici…

Mandana Chaffa, NBCC's Vice President of the Barrios Book in Translation Prize, interviewed @CPhillipsPoet on the occasion of his new collection, "Scattered Snows, to the North," for @ChicagoRevBooks: buff.ly/46TVEl9

My piece for August includes exciting collections by Rae Armantrout @weslpress Daniel Borzutzky @Coffee_House_ Andrea Cohen @FourWayBooks Jason Koo @DiodeEditions Nam Le @AAKnopf Carl Phillips @fsgbooks Danez Smith @GraywolfPress

Arthur Sze’s new edition of his Silk Dragon anthology—a life long project of poetic translations—just arrived in the mail. This poem by Du Fu in Arthur’s translation says more about our moment than any poem I had read this year:

Would love to go to poetry school and have to take care of a cat and a flower plot.

Congratulations to ARUNDHATI ROY! — winner of this year’s PEN/Pinter Prize. She says: ‘I wish Harold Pinter were with us today to write about the almost incomprehensible turn the world is taking. Since he isn’t, some of us must do our utmost to try to fill his shoes’

visiting assistant bard (non TT)

I can’t make this up. Kari Lake gave a campaign speech in front of the Confederate battle flag, where she continued to push election lies and conspiracies. Lake is dangerous to Arizona and our Democracy. Help us stop Kari Lake before it’s too late.

The book War & Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War by our dear friend Victoria Amelina is being prepared for publication. It is scheduled to be released in spring 2025 by Macmillan Publishers St. Martin's Press. You can pre-order the book: bit.ly/3xnu9mE

Congrats to @NaomiAKlein winner of the inaugural @WomensPrize for Non-Fiction ICYMI here's our 2-part deep dive into Doppelganger— from climate change to vaccine conspiracies to Israel-Palestine to coalition building part 1: tinhouse.com/podcast/naomi-… part 2: tinhouse.com/podcast/naomi-…

NBCC board member @DavidWooPoet wrote about seven new poetry collections to read this June, including ones by Robert Pinsky, Tayi Tibble, and Saba Keramati, for @lithub: buff.ly/3RegpRN

Coming up next Thursday, June 13, 7 pm, at the 222 Gallery in Healdsburg, I'll be in conversation with tribal leader/professor/storyteller/board member re his profound and entertaining new story collection, The Forgetters. Wisdom for all of us. the222.org/indigenous-voi…