"If we don't claim our light we get lost in the dark."
Tai Woodville is an American poet, writer, singer/songwriter & performer based in the Pacific Northwest.
"These are poems cherishing impermanent beauty; delicate, seductive [...] Thanatos and Eros brilliantly intertwined. Seldom can one rightly speak of greatness in a poet's first book; rare to know that these shatteringly lovely recognitions will be read and reread far into the future."
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")
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)
Save the Date
UPCOMING LIVE EVENT:
Flight Call is scheduled to perform live, kicking off the Portland Winter Lights Festival on February 7th 2025 at Past Lives Gallery (2808 SE 9th Ave, PDX). Details to come!
Flight Call in Large Hearted Boy Blog
Critically acclaimed author, Alissa Hattman (shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize) includes Flight Call's "A Piece of the Map" in her *Author's Playlist* post for Large Hearted Boy's music, writing & popular culture blog feature:
"I think sometimes people forget how vulnerable it is to express hope, genuine hope, for individuals and for humanity [...]
"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.
"A Piece of the Map" makes me think of the best parts of community—being there for each other, desiring the best for one another, helping, celebrating. I love how expansive it feels, like the song itself is reaching out, drawing us all together." [...]
-Alissa Hattman (author, SIFT)
LIT ANGELS Publishes First Chapter of Tai's Novel-in-Process
Best-selling author Francesca Lia Block's LIT ANGELS "Otherworlds" issue features “Activation,” the first chapter of Tai’s novel-in-progress.
When a vision on the subway reminds Nico Fernandez of her long-forgotten offworld identity she begins to see the hidden forces controlling her world.
Tai Performs Her Poem "A Spell to Break Spells"
[recently archived] Tai performs an original poem created for the full moon sound bath series in Portland's The Old Church, alongside ambient musical acts, Moss Wand & Amulets (July 2022)
Honest Jams Podcast Appearance
Podcast Interview
Fresh off the heels of completing the National Novel Writing Month challenge and a season of promoting her new album, "HOMEWORLD" by Flight Call, Tai returns to the Honest Jams Podcast. Alongside hosts, Portland musicians A. Walker Spring and Ayal Alves, they dig into meaty topics such as cosmic triggers, consensus reality, spiritual comedy, animism, the nature of consciousness, AI sentience, accessing the timeless self, modular synthesizers, taking creative risks, time-based art, perfectionism busting, the artistic process, and more. Tai shares "Compass," a single from "HOMEWORLD," while the hosts present original songs inspired by "Compass" as a prompt.