A People's History Of Chicago

Galleys available CBSD galley box Chicago-focused drive-time radio tour Local TV, radio, and print interview, features, and reviews Multiple major Chicago book launch events with Louder than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival Features in Chicago Magazine, Michigan Avenue Magazine, Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune Feature interview on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and performance on PBS affiliate WTTW's "Chicago Tonight", pitches to local afternoon news outlets which Coval has been on in the past Published to coincide with April National Poetry Month, Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival Promotion on the author's websites, www.kevincoval.com, www.youngchicagoauthors.org, www.newschoolpoetics.com, www.breakbeatpoets.com Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's numerous speaking engagements

Named "Best Chicago Poet" by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history.Named Best Chicago Poet by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history. Known variously as the Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders or Chi-Raq, Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly contested cities in the world. Chicago is the city of Gwendolyn Brooks and Chief Keef, Al Capone and Richard Wright, Lucy Parsons and Nelson Algren, Harold Washington and Studs Terkel. It is the city of Fred Hampton, House Music, and the Haymarket Martyrs. Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval's A People's History of Chicago celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective of those on the margins, whose stories often go untold. These seventy-seven poems (for the city's seventy-seven neighborhoods) honor the everyday lives and enduring resistance of the city's workers, poor people, and people of color, whose cultural and political revolutions continue to shape the social l