| “For three minutes at a time the students speak about their lives. For the other eighty-seven minutes, they are listening to the lives and stories and dreams of others. Kids that don’t look like them and come from a different neighborhood. In listening, the city shrinks." ~ Kevin Coval Co-Founder and Artistic Director Louder Than a Bomb KEVIN COVAL is the author of ALA “Book of the Year” finalist Slingshots: A Hip- Hop Poetica and Everyday People. He is co- founder and Artistic Director of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, subject of an award-winning documentary of the same name, airing on the OWN network in Fall 2011. A regular contributor to Chicago Public Radio, and a four-time HBO Def Poet, Coval teaches at the School of the Art Institute and in high schools around Chicago. His forthcoming collection L-vis Lives was recently released from Haymarket Books in September of 2011 and be accompanied by a national tour of the L-vis Lives one-man show. He can be reached at kc@kevincoval.com. |
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| Click the links below to check out MILWAUKEE's youth spoken word programs: VOLTAGE! Teen Slam & Open Mic Milwaukee High School Slam League |
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