Join Amesbury's Poet Laureate, Lisa Usani Phillips, for a poetry reading featuring Enzo Silon Surin followed by an open mic.

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Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning poet, author, educator, speaker, publisher, and social advocate. He has taught, performed, and lectured at schools, universities, festivals, and various other venues and has served as a keynote speaker on topics such as social justice, the immigrant experience, racial disparities in America, mental health, and education reform. He has been recognized for his artistry and literary citizenship and has dedicated his life and career to affecting social change through creative and critical writing. For more, visit his website.

Lisa Usani Phillips is an Asian American writer and editor who is Hakka by way of Thailand on her mom’s side and Dutch, English, German, and Irish on her dad’s side. She writes poetry and prose with two workshops, Fabrica Poetica and the Ediths . Lisa’s work has appeared in, or is, forthcoming from The Beacon Street Review, Current Biography, House Mountain Review, riksha: Asian American Notes and Images, and Salt Magazine, among others. She has received several honors for her writing, including the Emerson College Emerging Writer Award for MFA students. Her debut poetry and fiction collection, Guest People, was published by Wheeling Tern Books in October 2022. For more, visit her website.

This program is hosted by the Amesbury Public Library in partnership with the Newburyport Public Library and the G.A.R. Memorial Library.