Kevin Coval: Roots
@ Gensler
11 E Madison St, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, January 31st, from 8:30AM - 10AM
We’re so excited to welcome Kevin Coval to the stage!
Kevin Coval is a poet & author of A People’s History of Chicago, Everything Must Go: The Life & Death of an American Neighborhood & over ten other full length collections, anthologies & chapbooks. He is the founder & editor of The BreakBeat Poets series on Haymarket Books, Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors, which won a MacArthur Award in 2016, & founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, the world’s largest youth poetry festival, now in more than 19 cities around North America. He’s got a lot of hustles. He also is the recipient of the 2019 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Advocacy Award, the 2018 Studs Terkel Award & the 2017 John Peter Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award. He co-hosts the podcast The Cornerstore on WGN Radio cuz he is in love with listening & can be found on the interconnected networks @kevincoval.
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FREE tickets will be released on Monday, January 27th @ 11am! Make sure to log into your CM account and get your finger on the button at 10:59am!
If you’re late to snagging a ticket, get on that waitlist! We pull from the waitlist every month, so you’ve still got a good shot at attending this month’s event!
If you can’t make the event in person, be sure to come back to our Facebook page where we’ll be livestreaming the event!
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Register
https://creativemornings.com/talks/kevin-coval
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Bear hugs to our Quarterly Partner, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago!
Three cheers for our host this month, Gensler!
High fives and humble gratitude to our local sponsors:
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KEH Camera
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