About Me
Author of Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica), named Book of the Year-finalist by The American Library Association. Coval has performed at universities, high schools and theaters on four continents in seven countries including; The Parliament of the World’s Religions in Capetown, South Africa, The African Hip-Hop Festival: Battle Cry, Poetry Society of London, Yale, Steppenwolf Theater, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Stanford, St. Xavier’s College in Bombay, India, and four seasons of Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry Jam, for which he also serves as artistic consultant.Coval’s writing has appeared in The Spoken Word Revolution and The Spoken Word Revolution: Redux (Source Books), Total Chaos (Basic Civitas), I Speak of the City: New York City Poems (Columbia University Press), Awakening The Spirit (Skylight Paths), XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reporter, Cross Currents, Crab Orchard Review, Make Magazine, Garland Court Review, The Daily Herald, seen on C-Span, WGN, and can be heard regularly on Chicago Public Radio, where is resident poet and hip-hop correspondent. Founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, the largest youth poetry festival in the world, Coval is faculty at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago and Minister of Hip-Hop Poetics at The University of Wisconsin-Madison. For over ten years has been teaching hip-hop poetics in high schools and colleges around the country.
