Coval returns to Oakton for hip-hop reading

Posted March 25, 2013 1:01 pm

Submitted by Oakton Community College

Northbrook native Kevin Coval will read selections from his latest book of poems at 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, as part of the Chicago Writers Series at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines. Readings are free and open to the public.

A graduate of Glenbrook North High School, Coval is co-founder of Louder than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, and a veteran of Chicago Public Radio and HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam. His new work, “Shtick,” is a sweeping exposition on Jewish-American culture in all its bawdy, contradictory and inventive glory. Booklist Magazine calls Coval a line-crosser and bridge builder — of suburb to the city, white to black to Jewish, literature to hip-hop.

This program is generously funded by the Oakton Educational Foundation and student activity fees.

For information, contact Lynn Woodbury at (847) 635-1953 or woodbury@oakton.edu.

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