Scott Woods
Scott Woods is an Emmy award-winning writer and event organizer in Columbus, Ohio, and founder of Streetlight Guild, a performing arts non-profit. Woods is the author of three books and has been featured multiple times in national press, including appearances on National Public Radio. He is the Greater Columbus Arts Council winner of the 2017 Columbus Makes Art Excellence Award for his event series “Holler: 31 Days of Columbus Black Art”, and a 2018 Columbus Foundation Spirit of Columbus Award recipient. He is the 2022 winner of the Press Club of Cleveland’s award for Best in Ohio Essay Writing, and the 2023 winner Best in Ohio for the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the co-founder of the Writers’ Block Poetry Night and in 2006 became the first poet to ever complete a 24-hour solo poetry reading…a feat he bested seven more times without repeating a single poem.
Watch Scott Wood’s 2024 reading with Alicia Mountain at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Poetry by Scott Woods
“What you know about Nina Simone
could do laps on a pencil tip,
so I’m struggling to understand
why you would steal that CD.
That you skipped the vodka in the glove compartment
but took my reading glasses is equally perplexing.
It’s not my fault you can’t handle grammar,
but it may be my fault it never took.
Allow me the honor of tutelage now:
Name the verb in the following sentence:”