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

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.