Enzo Silon Surin (“Elegy for One Sixty-First Street” - Parsons Blvd - F) is a Haitian-born and Queens-amplified award-winning poet, author, educator, publisher and social advocate. He has taught, performed, and lectured on topics such as social justice, the immigrant experience, racial disparities, and mental health awareness. He is author of American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) and When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (2020), winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. In American Scapegoat, his second full-length collection of poetry, he interrogates the socio-political framework of a democracy at war with itself and its humanity. Surin is also a teaching artist co-editor of Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2022). He is Founding Editor & Publisher at Central Square Press and Founder & Executive Director at the Faraday Publishing Company, Inc., a nonprofit literary services and social advocacy organization. www.enzosurinink.org

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Enzo Silon Surin - " Elegy for One Sixty-First Street" - Parsons Blvd - F  | QUEENSBOUND 2024

I am a Haitian-born, award-winning poet, educator, librettist, publisher and social advocate, and the author of three previous collections of poetry, including When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), which won the Massachusetts Book Awards for Poetry and the forthcoming collection, American Scapegoat due out in May 2023 from Black Lawrence Press. www.enzosurinink.org

Author of the debut poetry collection We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019)
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Recordings of my published poems and recordings of the work of poets I admire.

Enzo Silon Surin - " Elegy for One Sixty-First Street" - Parsons Blvd - F | QUEENSBOUND 2024

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