It’s a Poetic Life w/ Enzo the Poet

It’s a Poetic Life is a podcast about creativity, attention, presence, and what it means to live more fully in an increasingly distracted world.Hosted by award-winning poet, author, educator, and publisher Enzo Silon Surin, each episode explores the poetic life as a way of being—one rooted in curiosity, reflection, community, and the courage to remain human.Through conversations with writers, artists, educators, cultural workers, and thoughtful observers of the world, the podcast examines the forces that shape our lives and the stories we tell about them. Together, these conversations move beyond craft to explore creativity, belonging, identity, memory, love, justice, and the everyday practices that help us make meaning.Whether discussing poetry, culture, teaching, relationships, or the creative process, It’s a Poetic Life invites listeners into a slower room to breathe, reflect, and reconnect with what matters most.Because the poetic life is not reserved for poets. It belongs to a

It’s a Poetic Life w/ Enzo the Poet is a arts podcast hosted by Enzo Surin INK, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Enzo Surin INK hosts It’s a Poetic Life w/ Enzo the Poet, a arts show with 18 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  S2:E6 — Press Enter: The Heart-Labor of Small Presses and the Creative Minds Behind Them

  Jul 31, 202650 minS2

  Every book begins long before it reaches a reader. It begins with someone willing to read closely, make difficult choices, shape the work with care, and believe that one more voice deserves a place in the world. In this episode, Enzo sits down with poet, editor, and publisher Rebecca Hart Olander to pull back the curtain on small press publishing and the heart-labor that makes each book possible. They talk about the difficult choices behind saying yes to a manuscript, what writers misunderstand about the editing process, and the many unseen hands that shape the books that eventually shape us. The conversation also moves through the delicate balance of being both poet and publisher, writing through grief, protecting room for one’s own creative life, and continuing to bring meaningful work into the world during a changing climate of censorship and uncertainty. This is a conversation for writers, editors, publishers, and anyone who has ever wondered what it truly takes to turn a manuscript into a book someone can hold. Subscribe to It’s a Poetic Life and share this episode with someone who believes language still matters.

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  Episode #5

  S2:E5 – On Cultural Stewardship: An Ecosystem of Care

  Jun 30, 202639 minS2

  In this episode of It’s a Poetic Life, Enzo welcomes violist, cultural curator, and Castle of Our Skins Co-Founder Ashleigh Gordon for a conversation on cultural stewardship, Black artistic lineage, and the ecosystems of care that make creative work possible. Together, they explore what it means to honor Black excellence not as an initiative, but as a living practice rooted in memory, community, rigor, and imagination. From music and performance to education, collaboration, and cultural preservation, this conversation invites listeners to consider how art carries history forward while creating space for what can still become.

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  Episode #4

  S2:E4 — Where the Poet Meets the World: Writing, Teaching, and Creative Community

  May 28, 202646 minS2

  In this episode of It’s a Poetic Life, Enzo sits down with poet, educator, and Salem Poet Laureate J.D. Scrimgeour for a conversation about poetry, place, mentorship, language, and literary community. Together, they reflect on the poetic life as something shaped not only by what we write, but by the spaces we help create for others. From Salem’s literary history and the Mass Poetry Festival to questions of family, translation, teaching, and community building, this conversation explores how poetry can live on the page, in the classroom, in the city, and in the relationships that sustain us. At its heart, this episode is about what it means to keep showing up for the work, for the people, and for the communities that make a literary life possible.

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  Episode #3

  S2:E3 — The New Empathy: On Presence, Performance, and Remaining Human

  Apr 30, 202635 minS2

  What happens when care starts to feel harder to read? In this episode of It’s a Poetic Life, I sit with a feeling I haven’t been able to shake: the sense that empathy is still present, but the way we encounter it has started to shift. From the language we absorb online to the way it follows us into real conversations and onto the page, I explore how care can become tangled with being seen, being affirmed, or being rewarded, and what that does to the way we trust each other. This isn’t a callout. It’s a conversation. A reflection on empathy, performance, mentorship, creative community, and the quiet work of remaining human with one another, even in the stories we tell and the characters we create. At the center of the episode is a question I’m still carrying: What does empathy look like when no one is watching? And how do we keep choosing presence in a world that often rewards performance? In practice, not perfection.

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  Episode #2

  S2:E2 — So Everything Doesn’t Have to Speak at Once

  Mar 28, 202642 minS2

  What does it really mean to build a writing life when the path doesn’t look the way you imagined? In this episode of It’s a Poetic Life , Enzo Silon Surin sits down with Dr. Molly Gaudry , founder of Lit Pub, author of We Take Me Apart, and assistant professor at Stony Brook University. She also teaches fiction at the Yale Writers’ Workshop. Together, they move through the quieter, often unseen parts of a creative life. They talk about rejection, community, and what it means to stay in relationship with your voice even when the work shifts. At the heart of the conversation is a simple but powerful idea. Sometimes the challenge is not a lack of material. It is learning how to enter the vastness of what is already there. This conversation reminds us that everything does not have to speak at once. Sometimes the work is simply finding a way in.

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