Black Night is Falling

Black Night is Falling is a book-shaped blues album.

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, and backstage tales of the vaunted and mythical Cookout. At turns funny, fearlessly irreverent and dark, Woods composes a love letter to the existential and emotional blues, gathering up all of the love and woe that can be held in the face of a world seemingly resigned to its own blues.

Scott Woods is a writer and event organizer in Columbus, Ohio. Woods is the author of Urban Contemporary History Month (2016), We Over Here Now (2013) and Prince and Little Weird Black Boy Gods (2017).He has been featured multiple times in national press, including appearances on National Public Radio. He is the founder of Streetlight Guild, a performing arts non-profit, a 2018 Columbus Foundation Spirit of Columbus Award recipient, as well as 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". Woods was named the first-ever "Face of Columbus" by Columbus Alive. He is the 2022 winner of the Press Club of Cleveland's Ohio Excellence in Journalism award for Best in Ohio Essay Writing, and was awarded "Best Columnist in Ohio" in 2023 by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists.He is the co-founder of the Writers' Block Poetry Night. In 2020 he won an Ohio Valley Regional Emmy Award for contributions to A House That Cannot Fail.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.