Burned at the Roots

Enoch the Poet was born and raised on the north side of Wilmington, DE. He is a an author whose work examines the process of healing and the ways that trauma and mental health move through a family, as well as the outside forces that affect or have affected these developments. His goal is to create work for the younger him, work that deepens our emotional understanding and its cyclical relation to the conditions acting on the Black mind, body, and spirit. In 2017, he won the title of 2017 Philadelphia Fuze Grand Slam Champion and placed 28th out of 95 in the Individual World Poetry Slam in Spokane, Washington. Enoch's had work published in various literary magazines such as Wusgood and Open Mind Quarterly and before the end of 2017 he published his first full length book of poetry titled "The Guide to Drowning." Off stage Enoch is a teaching artist who creates curriculum that uses poetry as a medium for processing transgenerational trauma. When he's not performing or teaching you can catch him reading manga, watching anime or serving underprivileged communities as the Treasurer and Creative Director of Urgent 365, Inc, a non-profit working to move communities of color forward through resource distribution, education programming and social wellness events. Enoch is also the founder of Black Minds Publishing, LLC, a national publications platformcentered around the personal and professional growth of artists and creatives of the Black diaspora.