M.E.S.A. (Museum Enrichment Series for All) featuring Enzo Silon Surin
Join Lynn Museum/LynnArts on the second Wednesday of each month at noon for M.E.S.A. (Museum Enrichment Series for All). This virtual lecture series will cover wellness, genealogy, and current events and hear from local experts, community members, Museum staff, and others.
Join Enzo Silon Surin, poet, librettist, educator, publisher, and social advocate, as he reads from his award-winning poetry collection When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (2020) and his forthcoming collection American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press, May 2023), and discusses how poetry is used to inspire and liberate our hearts and minds.
The conversation will take place over Zoom and live-streamed on Facebook.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lynn Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
About Enzo:
Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning poet, librettist, educator, publisher, and social advocate. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including When My Body Was A Clinched Fist(Black Lawrence Press, 2020), winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards for Poetry, and the forthcoming collection, American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press, May 2023). He is co-editor of Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience (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. www.enzosurinink.org
