Everything Must Go

By Kevin Coval and Langston Allston

• Kevin Coval's most recent book, A People's History of Chicago, was a finalist for "Best Chicago Poetry Book" by the Chicago Review of Books.

• Coval toured the city and around the country on the book, and does dozens of events on campuses, in communities every year.

• As one of the series editors of The BreakBeat Poets series from Haymarket Books, Kevin is uniquely positioned to relate to the growing audience for BreakBeat poetry.
  
  
• Coval's work has been reviewed in The New Republic, The Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere, and he's been a guest on The Daily Show and other places.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Release date: Oct 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781642590838

Kevin Coval

Kevin Coval is a poet and community builder. As the artistic director of Young Chicago 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 many books, including A People's History of Chicago and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, 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.