Kevin Coval

KEVIN COVAL is a poet and performance artist whose work looks critically at current cultural and political events via the lens of his Jewish identity. He uses hip-hop to wrestle, expose, and explore the impact of whiteness on himself and people of color. He has been featured in three seasons of the HBO Def Poetry Jam.

A Chicago Hip-Hop poet, Coval has performed on four continents in seven countries at universities, high schools, and conferences, including; The Parliament of the World’s Religions in Capetown, South Africa, African Hip-Hop Festival: Battle Cry, Poetry Society of London, Yale, Stanford and St. Xavier in Bombay, India. A member of the 2002 and 2003 National Poetry Slam Team-Chicago, His writing has appeared in The Spoken Word Revolution (Source Books), Awakening The Spirit (Skylight Paths), XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reporter, Fly Paper and can be heard regularly on the WBEZ-FM program 848 on Chicago Public Radio.

Hear the poetry: Kevin's Spoken Word
Bookings and performance inquiries: dvarim@j-arts.org