 “As strange as it might sound,” Wood is quoted as saying, “I’ve always thought were I given but a single adjective to describe my poetry, it would be ‘religious.’ The spiritual, whatever that is, haunts the majority of my work.Intellectually I don’t consider myself religious, but emotionally I certainly do.” With formalist tendencies, John Wood brings a neoclassical aesthetic to post-modernism with poems on science, religion, pop culture and Southern Gothic.He is known for his energetic style of performance giving poetry readings.