Kevin Coval

Kevin Coval Author Photo

Biography of Kevin Coval

Kevin Coval is the author of ALA “Book of the Year” finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica and Everyday People. He is also the Artistic Director of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival which he co-founded. Coval has performed at hundreds of universities, high schools, synagogues, and theaters in seven countries on four continents. A regular contributor to Chicago Public Radio and a four-time HBO Def Poet, Coval is former poet-in-residence at The Jane Addams’ Hull House Museum and is currently faculty at The School of the Art Institute. He has taught creative writing and spoken-word performance workshops in Chicago high schools for over ten years.

Are you the author profiled here? Email us your official website or Let us host your primary web presence.



Seven Books by Kevin Coval


Book Cover The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape by Javon Johnson and Kevin Coval

The End of Chiraq

Learn More ▶
Book Cover Human Highlight: An Ode to Dominique Wilkins by Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval

Human Highlight

Learn More ▶
Book Cover A People’s History of Chicago by Kevin Coval

A People’s History of Chicago

Learn More ▶
Book Cover This Is Modern Art: A Play by Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval

This Is Modern Art

Learn More ▶
Book Cover The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall

The Breakbeat Poets

Learn More ▶
Book Cover Schtick by Kevin Coval

Schtick

Learn More ▶
Book Cover L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems by Kevin Coval

L-vis Lives!

Learn More ▶