Scott Woods

Took us four weeks to get it ready and it opens today! For the next 7 days! #StreetlightGuild ##minihalloweenvillage

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No top 5 list for this week's #FrightClub #podcast - Instead, @scottwoods.bsky.social joins us for a deep dive into Weapons! Spoilers ahead, but if you've seen the movie, please join us!

Various gigs require real, long-term prep. This stack and another one like it are why I'm not catching random emails, calls, messages and what-not. I'm trying to earn the rep. Other folks can play. I have to be able to back things up bc I'm never just carrying me. See you next month at something.

Your boy got gigs and appearances! My August is mostly me prepping for September.

I'll be in conversation with Percival Everett 9/3 for Bexley Public Library! Check them out for details.

bexley.libnet.info/event/13964160

From my panel/book signing at the Columbus Book Festival last weekend, with Darren C. Demaree, Rikki Santer and moderator extraordinaire Nicole Sutton. Very thankful for the folks who came out early on a Sunday morning to listen to poets talk process.

At the poetry panel I sat on today at the Columbus Book Festival I mentioned that each of the poems in my book have a blues song to go with them. I said I would post it, so pow!
(Note: If you were one of my Patreon supporters you got this 8 months ago. Membership has its privileges!)

Stop confusing neutrality with blinders.

These two. 🙌🙌 Thanks to everyone who came to the event last night with @scottwoods.bsky.social & Hanif Abdurraqib! A very special evening & we're grateful to have shared it with you all. ❤️

(Shout out to Richelle at @ccadedu.bsky.social, who accommodated us at the last minute due to the rain! 🫶)

What I'm doing in July!

TH Board President Paula Cole & @scottwoods.bsky.social rocked it on @nbc4i.com's Daytime Columbus this afternoon! 😎🎥🌟

🔥 Tix are still available for Scott's event TOMORROW 7/10 with #Columbus legend Hanif Abdurraqib. 🤩

Register ➡️ www.thurberhouse.org/summer-events-2025/scott-woods-hanif-abdurraqib

Thurber House — *Picnic* In Conversation: Poets, Essayists, & Cultural Critics Scott Woods and Hanif Abdurraqib BLACK NIGHT IS FALLING Scott Woods' third book of poetry wrestles with ecstatic notions of blackness, the beauty and grief to be found in every 'hood carryout, the colonization of pumpkin spice, an...

One night only!!! ☝️🎟 This Thurs 7/10, #Columbus legends @scottwoods.bsky.social & Hanif Abdurraqib will take the stage together for a convo you do NOT want to miss. Tix are going fast! 🔥

Info ➡️ www.thurberhouse.org/summer-events-2025/scott-woods-hanif-abdurraqib

#columbusmakesart #artmakescbus

Diddy should be under the jail, but we're America.

Words are important.

Lowest branch ever.

Columbus Makes Art Presents Scott Woods on the Power of Writing and Community - Columbus Underground Local authors Scott Woods and Hanif Abdurraqib have a conversation on July 10 from 6-7:30 p.m. on the Thurber House lawn, be there!

Don’t miss the upcoming event with @scottwoods.bsky.social on July 10: columbusunderground.com/columbus-mak...

Some of y'all are doing so well with your self care. You're resting. You're moving more. You're slowing things down.

And then you share it on the internet.

Starter Kit - Blues - YouTube

Saw Sinners again last night (IMAX this time) and it’s still great.

Accordingly, I think it’s a good time to reshare this list of introductory Blues tracks curated for me by @scottwoods.bsky.social, who couldn’t be more made for this moment if you were writing a script.

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Summer, HERE WE COME! 🤩 NEW #summer events: John Kenney, Sharon Short, @scottwoods.bsky.social with Hanif Abdurraqib, Linda Castillo, & a family-friendly BBQ at Green Lawn Cemetery!

More ➡ www.thurberhouse.org/summer-events-2025

#asseenincolumbus #asseenincbus #columbusmakesart #artmakescbus

The Monkey: Differences between the story and film, but who cares (Here there be mild spoilers.) I’m back in this phase where I’m not digging into movies before I see them for their backstories or production dramas. I just want to go see a movie, not give Monday …

I had some thoughts on The Monkey.

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Look at this dashing book tasting crew. What a great night of Black librarian book love! Bonus: a mother asked if we all worked there at the branch. You know why. And yes, we do.

The Other Columbus: Dishing up a Black art gumbo – Matter News Black art has historically never gotten its due, but following these step-by-step recipe instructions could finally begin to turn the tide.

Black art has historically never gotten its due but following these step-by-step recipe instructions from @scottwoods.bsky.social could finally begin to turn the tide.

matternews.org/voices/the-o...

And if you do this and you're white? Oh boy. You fittin' to have a long day.

Alright, so if we're not going to pace ourselves and we're going to, all of us, at the same time, be uncited CNN anchors, then at least post one good thing for every bad thing. Something you're fighting for, something worth saving. At least break up some of this backlog of nightmares in my feed, fam

The Other Columbus: Getting over on your local thirsty artist – Matter News The city generally feels like an ATM for rich developers, and our arts infrastructure functions in much the same manner.

Artists can expect an avalanche of increasingly negative outcomes and experiences if we don’t resolve the imbalance of our thirst to be seen against the hustle of the arts industrial complex to capitalize on a (for now) increased level of support.

New from @scottwoods.bsky.social.

Gigs this week!

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | Wexner Center for the Arts Because of his art world fame and persistent criticism of the Chinese government, Ai Weiwei has become one of the world’s most renowned artists...

This month's "Sonnets & Cinema" series at the @wexarts.bsky.social concludes this Friday with a screening of the doc AI WEI WEI: NEVER SORRY about the acclaimed Chinese artist, and poetry readings by series organizer @scottwoods.bsky.social and #HanifAbdurraqib!

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Let's get this year started.

Museum Town | Wexner Center for the Arts Narrated by Meryl Streep, Museum Town tells the all-too-familiar story of North Adams, Massachusetts, whose largest employer, Sprague Electric,...

Organized by Streetlight Guild founder @scottwoods.bsky.social, the Sonnets and Cinema series continues Thur, Jan 23rd at the @wexarts.bsky.social. Readings by Columbus poet Aaron Alsop and Scott precede a screening of MUSEUM TOWN (2019) about the founding of MASS MOCA. wexarts.org/film-video/m...