September 4, 2007
Kevin Coval Brings Hip-Hop Poetry to Oakton
Northbrook native Kevin Coval will read selections from his work at 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20, as part of the Chicago Writers Series at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, in Des Plaines.
Readings are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
A graduate of Glenbrook North High School, Coval is the author of Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica). He is also the co-founder of The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival: Louder Than A Bomb, the world's largest youth poetry competition. A veteran of Chicago Public Radio and HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Coval uses hip-hop to explore issues of identity and inequality.
For more information about the Chicago Writers Series, contact Lynn Woodbury at 847-635-1953 or woodbury@oakton.edu.
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