Kevin Coval is a poet and community builder. As the artistic director of Young hicago Authors, founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago―where he teaches hip-hop aesthetics―he's mentored thousands of young writers, artists and musicians. He is the author and editor of ten books, including
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and
Schtick, and co-author of the play,
This is Modern Art. His work has appeared in
Poetry Magazine,
The Drunken Boat, Chicago Tribune, CNN,
Fake Shore Drive,
Huffington Post, and four seasons of HBO's
Def Poetry Jam.
Langston Allston is a painter and muralist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He uses his art practice as a way to tell stories, drawn from his own experience, and from the experiences of people in his community, drawing a thread between the past and the present.
October 11, 2019
