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name: Kevin Coval
about: Kevin Coval is an award-winning poet &amp; author of Everything Must Go: The Life &amp; Death of an American Neighborhood, A People's History of Chicago &amp; over ten other full-length collections, anthologies &amp; chapbooks. He is the founding editor of The BreakBeat Poets series on Haymarket Books, &amp; Artistic Director of the MacArthur Award-winning cultural organization, Young Chicago Authors, &amp; founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, the world's largest youth poetry festival, now in more than 19 cities across North America. He's shared the stage with The Migos &amp; Nelson Mandela, has published in Poetry Magazine, The Chicago Tribune &amp; CNN.com &amp; co-hosts the podcast, The Cornerstore, on WGN Radio. Kevin Coval is an award-winning poet &amp; author of Everything Must Go: The Life &amp; Death of an American Neighborhood, A People's History of Chicago &amp; over ten other full-length collections, anthologies &amp; chapbooks. He is the founding editor of The BreakBeat Poets series on Haymarket Books, &amp; Artistic Director of the MacArthur Award-winning cultural organization, Young Chicago Authors, &amp; founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, the world's largest youth poetry festival, now in more than 19 cities across North America. He's shared the stage with The Migos &amp; Nelson Mandela, has published in Poetry Magazine, The Chicago Tribune &amp; CNN.com &amp; co-hosts the podcast, The Cornerstore, on WGN Radio. ...more