Poetry off the Shelf: Kevin Coval & Idris Goodwin
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free admission, register in advance here
At 30 minutes before event start, guests with Eventbrite tickets will have priority entry to the performance space on a first-come, first-served basis. At 15 minutes prior to event start, the performance space is open to all guests. Seating capacity is limited. Eventbrite reservations do not guarantee entry or reserved seating.
Join us for a joint book launch of Everything Must Go and Can I Kick It?, featuring Chicago poet and editor Kevin Coval and award-winning BreakBeat poet and playwright Idris Goodwin. Coval is the author of 10 books, including A People’s History of Chicago; coeditor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop; and artistic director of Young Chicago Authors. Goodwin is a poet, a playwright, and the author of the Pushcart Prize-nominated essay and poetry collection These Are the Breaks; his chapbook Inauguration won the 2017 Literary Arts Award from the Pikes Peak Arts Council. Coval and Goodwin cowrote the play This Is Modern Art. There will be an ASL interpreter at this event.
Cosponsored with Young Chicago Authors and Haymarket Books