The Writer’s Center welcomes poet Lee Woodman for a reading from her new collection, Colorscapes. Lee is joined by Emily Holland, poet and editor of Poet Lore, America’s oldest poetry journal.
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Lee Woodman is the author of the “Scapes” poetry series (Homescapes, Mindscapes, Lifescapes, Artscapes, and Soulscapes) and winner of the Independent Press Gold Award 2025, the Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry 2025, and the Independent Press Award for Distinguished Favorite in Poetry 2023. She is also winner of the 2020 William Meredith Prize for Poetry, the 2021 Atlantic Review International Poetry Competition Merit Award, and First Prize in Poetry and Prose Contest for Carve Magazine 2022.
Her essays and poems have been published in Poet Lore, Tiferet Journal, Zócalo Public Square, Grey Sparrow Press, The Ekphrastic Review, vox poetica, The New Guard Review, The Concord Monitor, The Hill Rag, Naugatuck River Review, Tulip Tree Publishing, and The Broadkill Review. A Pushcart nominee, she received an Individual Poetry Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities FY 2019 and FY 2020, and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship in 2022.
Woodman has been a featured guest on numerous radio shows and podcasts, including Grace Cavalieri’s “Poet and the Poem” at the Library of Congress, “The Packaged Tourist Show” at The National Archives with Andrew Dibiase, “The Authors Show” with Don McCauley, and “Gab Talks” with Gabby Olczak. Woodman believes poetry is a reflection of all creative expression: dance, music, drama, visual arts, and language.
About the Book
The sixth volume in Lee Woodman’s renowned SCAPES series, COLORSCAPES is a veritable celebration of the colors of Woodman’s life. As a child living in India, she absorbed the rich and colorful fruits and spices in the marketplace and the wild combos of yellows, greens, and purples in village women’s saris. Studying studio art and art history in college, she encountered color theory and the phenomenology of perception. Throughout her career came opportunities to submerge herself in color, working at the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and other stewards of art, architecture, technology, and science. For Woodman, color is more than a fascination, as she charges us to live and breathe through color, noting that color suffuses our lives with meaning and memory, bidding us to relive experiences we’ve had, people we’ve met, and passions that have enriched our lives.
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