Chicago poet brings slam to Buffalo Grove

Buffalo Grove High School will host it’s first Poetry Slam for staff and students during lunch hours on Thursday, April 5.

Students and staff members are invited to unleash their inner poets by either reading a poem or sitting back and enjoying the work of others. Anyone who signs up may share three minutes of poetry with the audience — original and self-penned, or a piece by a favorite published poet.

At the end of the slam, special guest Kevin Coval from Young Chicago Authors and co-founder and artistic director of the Chicago youth slam, “Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival,” will perform.

Coval is poet-in-residence at The Jane Addams’ Hull House Museum and teaches at The School of the Art Institute and University of Illinois-Chicago. He can be heard regularly on National Public Radio in Chicago.

A workshop will follow the Poetry Slam for two creative writing classes and any Poetry Slam participants who sign up. Attendees will have the opportunity to be inspired, encouraged, and to hone their skills by working with Coval.