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SUMMARY:Enzo Silon Surin author of American Scapegoat and January O'Neil author of Glitter Road
DESCRIPTION:Porter Square Books: Boston Edition is excited to welcome poets Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012) and January O’Neil to read from and discuss their books American Scapegoat and Glitter Road. \n\n\n\nEnzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning poet\, author\, educator\, publisher and social advocate. He has taught\, performed\, and lectured on topics such as social justice\, the immigrant experience\, mental health\, and racial disparities. He is the author of American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press\, 2023) and When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (Black Lawrence Press\, 2020)\, winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. He is also the author of two chapbooks and co-editor of Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience (Cherry Castle Publishing\, 2022). Surin currently serves as 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. \n\n\n\nJanuary O’Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024)\, Rewilding (2018)\, Misery Islands (2014)\, and Underlife (2009)\, all published by CavanKerry Press. Glitter Road was a finalist for the 2024 New England Book Award. From 2012-2018\, she served as the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series\, American Poetry Review\, The Nation\, Poetry\, and Sierra magazine\, among others. Her poem\, “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial\,” was a co-winner of the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, Cave Canem\, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund\, O’Neil was the 2019-2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi\, Oxford. She currently serves as the 2022-2025 board chair of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/enzo-silon-surin-author-of-american-scapegoat-and-january-oneil-author-of-glitter-road/
LOCATION:Porter Square Books: Boston Edition\, 50 Liberty Dr.\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02210\, United States
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