[Peace-discuss] Event this evening
David Green
davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 1 08:51:49 CDT 2010
Hello everyone. Tomorrow at 7pm, Allen Hall is hosting poet Kevin Coval. Coval
is a pro-Palestinian, Jewish-American poet who uses his art to analyze tough
social, political, and cultural issues.
Please consider attending and please spread the word!
-SJP UIUC
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BREAKBEAT POETICS
Award winning HBO Def Poets //Educators // Hip Hop Artists ::
IDRIS GOODWIN + KEVIN COVALpresent a concert of innovative lyricism.
Blurring the lines between spoken word, hip-hop performance, and theatre,
Goodwin + Coval are on the forefront of contemporary literature [de]constructing
American culture in the Obama age.
Friday, October 1
7:00pm
Main Lounge of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory drive, U
Free and open to the public
About KEVIN
“ofone of my favorite poets” –MosDef, actor and emcee
Author of everyday people and slingshots {a hip-hop poetica}, finalist for
theAmerican Library Association’s “Book of the Year” :: Educator, four-time HBO
DefPoet, and co-founder of “Louder than aBomb”, the largest youth poetry
festivalin the world, Coval’s work continues inthe rich tradition of Carl
Sandburg &Gwendolyn Brooks. Hailed as the unofficial poet laureate of Chicago,
StudsTerkel described Coval as “a new, glowing voice in the world of literature
[whose]voice is our hope for a new world of peace, grace, and beauty.”
About IDRIS
“Goodwin is a writer who bears watching” -Chicago Tribune.
Award-winning playwright, break beat poet, recording artist + hip-hop educator,
Idris has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford
Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council and feat. on HBO Def Poetry. Chicago’s SGE
Records released Idris’ latest hip-hop album BREAK BEAT POEMS praised by Little
Village Magazine for its “righteous beats and elliptically clever rhyming”.
www.kevincoval.com
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