Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning writer, poet, educator, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of three 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 chapbook, A Letter of Resignation: An American Libretto (Central Square Press, 2017). He is co-editor of Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2022), and the recipient of a Brother Thomas Fellowship from the Boston Foundation, a PEN New England Discovery Award (Celebrated New Voice in Poetry) and Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant as an Artist-in-Residence at Chateau d'Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France. Surin's work gives voice to experiences that take place in what he calls "broken spaces" and has been featured in numerous publications including by the Poetry Foundation and in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets.

Other poems on the web by Enzo Silon Surin:
"My Body as A Clinched Fist"
"When Night Fills with Premature Exits"
"Corners"

Enzo Silon Surin's Website.

Enzo Silon Surin on Twitter.

About American Scapegoat:

"Through his own distinctive path, Enzo Silon Surin bears witness to the complexities of the Black experience in America. These poems examine the hard edges and paradoxes as a way of illuminating them as he grapples with violence, injustice, masculinity, intimacy, and fatherhood. How does one locate themselves in this American landscape? American Scapegoat is a remarkable testament to the power of language, marked with intensity, radiance, and hope."
—January Gill O'Neil

"The poems in American Scapegoat are not for the faint of heart. Wrapped masterfully in poetry's artful tongue, they do not seek absolution nor do they apologize as the collection indicts American racism and its bloated, systemic injustices. Heightening the reader's experience with a surgically precise interrogation of form in poems like 'American Lexicon,' 'Prelude,' and 'American Witness,' Enzo Silon Surin writes against our fears and shines bright the hope we dare have for our sons."
—Frank X Walker