This episode features our conversation with Enzo Silon Surin, which was livestreamed on Saturday, April 8, 2023. We talked about their most recent books including When My Body was a Clinched Fist and the forthcoming poetry collection, American Scapegoat.
Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born, award-winning poet, educator, librettist, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry and the forthcoming collection, American Scapegoat which will also be published by Black Lawrence Press and will be released in May (which is available for pre-order). He is co-editor of Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience which was published by Cherry Castle Publishing, 2022, and the recipient of a New England Poetry Club grant, a Brother Thomas Fellowship from the Boston Foundation, a PEN New England Discovery Award and a 2020 Denis Diderot Grant as an Artist-in-Residence at Chateau d’Orquevaux in France.
Being a product of two countries, Enzo Silon Surin has dedicated his life and career to affecting social change through creative and critical writing and gives voice to experiences that take place in what he calls “broken spaces”.
Surin teaches creative writing and literature at Bunker Hill Community College and is also Founding Editor and Publisher at Central Square Press and Founder/Executive Director at the Faraday Publishing Company, Inc., a nonprofit literary services and social advocacy organization.
To learn more about Enzo, please visit their website at enzosurinink.org.
Find Enzo on Instagram: @enzothepoet.
