Scott Woods

Scott Woods is the author or editor of two poetry collections (Urban Contemporary History Month, 2016, and We Over Here Now, 2013) and a collection of essays on Prince (Prince and Little Weird Black Boy Gods, 2017). He is the founder of Streetlight Guild, an award-winning, performing arts nonprofit. He has been featured multiple times in national press, including multiple appearances on National Public Radio. He was the president of Poetry Slam, Inc., is the co-founder of the Writers’ Block Poetry Night, and co-hosts the Race Against The Machine and The Purple Canon podcasts. In April of 2006, he 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.