A People’s History of Chicago
@ National Veterans Art Museum
4041 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Thursday, January 18th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
The National Veterans Art Museum is proud to host Kevin Coval, author of “A People’s History of Chicago” for a reading on the northwest side of Chicago on January 18th 7-8:30PM. Guests are invited to tour NVAM for a viewing of VIETNAM-The Defining Moment and The Things They Carried before and after the reading.
The event is free, guests will need to RSVP through Eventbrite due to space limitations.
Poet and community builder Kevin Coval is the author of 10 books, including A People’s History of Chicago, editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and co-writer of the play This is Modern Art, which premiered at Steppenwolf Theater in 2015. Additionally, he is the Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors — winner of a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2016 — founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, and co-host of the WGN Radio podcast The Cornerstore. His work has appeared on The Daily Show, four seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, CNN.com, Poetry Magazine, and Fake Shore Drive. He is the editor of the Haymarket Books imprint BreakBeat Publishing, which is dedicated to publishing radically fresh voices, and teaches hip-hop poetics in high schools, colleges, and community centers around the globe. Find him on Twitter and Instagram @kevincoval.
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Tags: A People's History of Chicago Reading, Chicago, Illinois, Kevin Coval, National Veterans Art Museum, Portage Park, The Things They Carried, VIETNAM: The Defining Moment
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