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For over a decade, as an award-winning author, poet, speaker, and social advocate, I have offered writing workshops, lectures, readings, and speaking engagements at colleges, universities, schools, libraries, performing arts centers, festivals, corporations, civic and cultural associations, and at private events. I have used empowering messages, reflections, meditations, and lamentations to educate and inspire and to help us become our best selves and to curate a better world together. It is in this spirit that I have created a Patreon community.

 
 

“Your lack of participation in the joys of the world and in your life, does not make the world a better place.”

@enzosurinink

 

As a Patron, you will have access to insights, meditations, words of affirmation and encouragement, and empowering audio messages on a weekly basis. You will also be granted exclusive access to my new bi-weekly VoiceCast, Love Notes in a Pandemic, PLUS original photography, videos, and exclusive first looks at new materials and projects.

Your contribution will be used towards content development, production, equipment, and additional resources necessary to bring these wonderful "Love Notes" to you.

 
 

I love a good story and can write one too. Always have been able to do so as a kid. I learned to document what was happening around me and with a dose of imagination turned everyday experiences into something extraordinary. And as much as I like to write, I believe we all have the ability to tell incredible stories. And no story is more powerful than the one we tell ourselves; the story we write and narrate in our minds every single day. Sometimes we tell ourselves this is going to be another awful week or this is just how bad my entire life is and it will not get better. Think about what is really being said here. We are writing a story about days that haven’t even happened yet. Today is Monday but we’re already telling ourselves that Tuesday is going to be as awful as today. The thing is, we are not guaranteed a tomorrow so all we really have is today. As such, tomorrow is an opportunity for a new chapter, one that we get to write when we get there. This is to say that every day we get to write our stories and stories have a way of manifesting life in a way one could never imagine. Take a moment today to think about the stories you tell yourself about yourself and start drafting a new one.

 

When I reach 500 patrons, I’ll hire an editor to help me release quality video segments of my Love Notes in a Pandemic podcast, live stream events, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of my writing life.

Throwback Thursday is the perfect day for today’s selection of the #sealeychallenge. Lisa Pegram’s @ladypcoq debut collection of poems, CRACKED CALABASH (@centralsquarepress), is a vessel of 13 poems that contemplates personal identity in
Showing mad love for chapbooks for the #sealeychallenge today. I wanted to showcase the very first book I published through @centralsquarepress by none other than Afaa Michael Weaver @east_bmore . He believed in the mission of our press and I believe
It says shoes and shirt required but not pants, Nicholas says. Yes, but I’m pretty sure you can’t mini-golf without pants either. The last time we went mini golfing Nicholas was Michael’s age—time does not fly it warps. This w
Can you believe it is already mid-August? That means we’re a little late getting into the Sealey Challenge this year. But if you’re like me and love poetry and are often slower readers of poetry, it’s more than okay to start now.
If I told you, you wouldn’t believe me. Today felt like the first and last day of summer. The breeze was a pleasant present. The way the sunset is a half shade darker in tint means we are closer to another season than we care to admit. Don&rs
Yesterday was a day of mixed emotions. People you’ve hugged in real life making their transition hits differently. At the same time, completed the revised manuscript for my next book and publisher and I selected a blockbuster type of book cover
A dear and sweet soul has left the world tonight. As a fellow Northshore poet, journalist and editor, she was always generous on and off the page and carried a brilliant smile and kind heart wherever she went. I want to honor her transition tonight a
We all had fresh haircuts, fresh drip, wore French cologne and were off for a date night in the city for dinner. Would’ve hit the clubs after but Star Market had jolly ranchers so we went with that. Trying to get final edits back to my publishe
Day 22 of the #sealeychallenge and I wanted to bring you a mixtape of poetry. Growing up in NYC and coming of age with Hip Hop, the mixtape was everything to us. And it still is. Today’s selection proves to be timeless with its subject matter.
Can you believe it is already mid-August? That means we’re a little late getting into the Sealey Challenge this year. But if you’re like me and love poetry and are often slower readers of poetry, it’s more than okay to start now.
Don’t devalue your worth under the guise that you are worth less or not doing enough. It’s time to reframe the narrative and put your story back in your hands. #metalhealthawarenessmonth #writers #authors #shareyourwork #lovenotesinapan
As National Poetry Month comes to an end and we enter Mental Health Awareness Month, today serves as a wonderful reminder that any day is a great day to write poetry. And as a way of celebrating the power of poetry as an incredible tool for connecti
Today’s assignment signifies the end of our National Poetry Month One Poem a Day Challenge. We have been writing, presumably the entire month of April and have written at least one new poem for each day of the month. I hope you have enjoyed it
Today’s assignment is to write a poem about an everyday chore like cleaning, doing laundry, mowing the lawn and so on. I was doing laundry the other day and you wouldn’t believe the type of poem that came out of just sitting there waiting
Today’s assignment is to write a poem about American Pop Culture. Feel free to use whatever comes to mind for you when you think about American Pop Culture; from music, to movies to fashion. - Happy Writing! #culture #popculture #americanpop
Today’s assignment is to write a poem starting with the following line “at times, my life seems…” – Happy Writing! ##onepoemadaychallenge #challenge #poetry #poet #EnzoSurin #poetrycommunity #lovenotesinapandemic #wr
Today’s assignment is to write a poem using the following phrase “restlessness was never a problem.” You can use it to begin a poem, to end it or as a transition. We have four more days of assignments for National Poetry Month after
Today’s assignment is to write a poem about color. You can write about how the color reminds you of something and what sort of emotions it evokes. The one thing that I want you to avoid is a poem that uses the cliche of “feeling blue.&rdq