Kevin Coval

Kevin Coval is an award-winning poet & author of Everything Must Go: The Life & Death of an American Neighborhood, A People’s History of Chicago, and ten other collections and anthologies. He’s a founding editor of The BreakBeat Poets on Haymarket Books, Creative Director of the MacArthur Award-winning cultural organization, Young Chicago Authors & founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival. He’s shared stages with The Migos and Nelson Mandela, and his work has been featured on The Daily Show, Poetry Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Chicago Tribune, CNN.com & four seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam.