TLDR: My sabbatical yielded a finished manuscript. Finally finished a draft of the essay collection I should have completed 3 years ago, but couldn't because I was waiting for this version of me to arrive. It's a draft, so there is more to do. The last 3 weeks of focus have been transformative.

Give Guillermo del Toro whatever he wants for "At the Mountains of Madness".

Go on 'head and block out Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. I'm cooking up something beautiful. You got 298 days to make sure you don't miss out. Here in Columbus, Ohio. Yes, it's worth the trip.

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

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

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.

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.

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. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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

I had some thoughts on The Monkey. wp.me/p40Hhl-Y9

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.

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

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!

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! wexarts.org/film-video/a...

Let's get this year started.

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...

Thanks to everyone who came out to Sonnets and Cinema! A special shout-out to my GURL, poet Sayuri Matsuura-Ayers who brought that new poem heat. It was good to see so much poetry family out! Y'all make me look good. @wexarts.bsky.social

What does arts and culture have to do with identity? Pretty much everything. This is the first in a series of four columns from @scottwoods.bsky.social focused on the local arts scene and running every other week through February. matternews.org/voices/the-o...

Pairing films and readings by Columbus poets, Sonnets and Cinema returns to the Wex on Jan 16 with JODOROWSKY'S DUNE & readings by Sayuri Ayers & Streetlight Guild founder and series organizer Scott Woods. Great article by Hope Madden in Columbus Underground. columbusunderground.com/sonnets-and-...

I am SO excited to be curating this 3-film series, Sonnets and Cinema, starting next Thursday! I chose each of these films as an answer to the question, Can art change the world? Each night will open with an introduction and poem by me, and a guest poet! @wexarts.bsky.social

I've been trying to avoid the MSM but this is a must-read by Columbus's own @scottwoods.bsky.social. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Brother John (1971) - In lieu of my own posting about this movie, which I find to be just the right mix of overt and enigmatic with a fantastic Sidney Poitier performance, here's a longform piece by the fantastic @scottwoods.bsky.social about it: scottwoodsmakeslists.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/b...

Your boy is tired.

My new book, Black Night is Falling, drops today 11/14! I have a reading for it on Friday 11/15 at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social