Oct 12th 2018

Kevin Coval & Langston Allston: Milwaukee Ave Chapbook Release

@ Volumes Bookcafe

1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Opening Friday, October 12th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM

Join us October 12th as we celebrate the exclusive release of a new project from local favorite, Kevin Coval and artist Langston Allston.

MILWAUKEE AVE. is a long poem inspired by Frank O’hara’s Second Avenue – it is about our storied street of Milwaukee Ave. and those who are there and those who have been forced to go.

This collaboration with Langston and Kevin
is a preview of a larger collection they are working on for fall 2019. It will be sold exclusively here at Volumes and online at Haymarketbooks.org

This event is FREE and open to the public. ALL ages welcome.

Poet, educator, curator and community builder Kevin Coval is the author of 13 books, including A People’s History of Chicago, editor of BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop, and co-wrote the play, This is Modern Art, which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2015. He is the artistic director of Young Chicago Authors – winner of the MacArthur award for creative and effective institutions in 2016 & founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, the largest poetry competition in the nation. In 2018, Coval was honored with the Studs Terkel Uplifting Voices award. His writing has appeared on The Daily Show, four seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, CNN, Poetry Magazine, Fake Shore Drive & more. He is the editor of the Haymarket Book’s imprint BreakBeat Publishing, which is dedicated to publishing radically fresh voices, co-hosts the WGN Radio podcast The Cornerstone. & teaches hip hop poetics in high schools, colleges and community centers around the globe. Find him on twitter or instagram/@kevincoval

Langston Allston is a painter and muralist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Allston uses his art practice as a way to tell stories, drawn from his own experiences, and from the experiences of people in his community. His work provides an opportunity to reflect on these shared moments and histories, and to draw a thread between the past and the present. Traveling through the United States has provided Allston with an incredible amount of material to work from, but New Orleans is a uniquely inspiring environment to pull that material together. Allston has teamed up with Kevin Coval for this MILWAUKEE AVE chapbook and more forthcoming work in the coming year.

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