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Scott Woods performing poetry marathon

Nationally-know poet and President of Poetry Slam Inc. (PSi) Scott Woods is performing a one-man 24-hour poetry feature for the second time. Scheduled to usher in National Poetry Month (April), the event will be held at Kafe Kerouac (2250 N. High St.) Woods will begin reading at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 31 and continue until Sunday April 1 at 8 p.m.

“Last year, no one had done it before,” said Woods. “Now I can top myself by not repeating poems. Poetry is so vast and contains so many voices, you could do this reading every year for 50 years and not repeat a poem.”

The author and editor of over nine volumes of poetry (50 Mistakes Poets Make and High Desert Voices: The 2005 National Poetry Slam Anthology most recently), Woods has performed all over the country. He has been featured multiple times on National Public Radio and recently in Paste Magazine.

 

He was inducted into the Thomson-Gale Contemporary Black Biography encyclopedia in 2006 and has published articles, reviews and other prose. He is currently President of Poetry Slam Inc., which oversees the annual National Poetry Slam and the Individual World Poetry Slam. Woods co-founded the Writers' Block Poetry Night, a Columbus-based organization that produces weekly open mic events and poetry slams, a monthly open mic dedicated to new poetry, and the Jazz Poetry Slam. He also writes a monthly poetry column, "Poetry Is Doomed," for GotPoetry.com.

For more information about Scott Woods, see www.BlackAir.org. For more information about Writers' Block Poetry Night, see www.WritersBlockPoetry.com.


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