word, sound, movement
Tai Woodville
poet, singer-songwriter, writer, performer
About
Artworks & Background
- Tai Woodville is a Portland-based, Los Angeles-born poet, writer, singer-songwriter, and performer.
- She has released two albums—HOMEWORLD as Flight Call and Out of the Woods as Sugar in Wartime.
- Author of prize-winning poetry collection Pollen (available on Finishing Line Press), Tai holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature & Creative Writing from UCSB's College of Creative Studies.
- A Pushcart Prize nominee, her writing has appeared in Atticus Review, Visitant Lit, LIT Angels, and elsewhere.
"These are poems cherishing impermanent beauty; delicate, seductive, they braid hope and youthful sex with heartfelt mourning, Thanatos and Eros brilliantly intertwined."
Barry Spacks, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate (on "Pollen")
"Tai Woodville has found a way of entering the personal story at unexpected angles, her language rich and wholly particular. This is a strange and startling work, an astonishing voice. These poems make the reader hungry to read her again, and again."
Samantha Dunn, author (on "Pollen")
The poems in POLLEN are thoughtful, meditative, and exciting. Woodville knows how to employ a lyric moment and how to tell a story, even when the story is a difficult one."
Mathew Dickman, poet (on "Pollen")
HOMEWORLD is a personal compilation of magic spells and secret codes, an exploded starfield of glimmering images that are helpful, healing, disarming, diaphanous, prismatic, piercing, and lyrical [...] taking the listener on a light-filled, avant-pop journey from inner space to outer space. "
- Andrea Janda, Vortex Music Magazine (on Flight Call)
Flight Call’s debut avant-pop album (the conceptual project of writer and musician Tai Woodville) came at just the right time. It’s a gorgeous, shimmery, uplifting ray of hope, and one I return to now whenever I’m feeling low [...] "
-Alissa Hattman (on Flight Call)
