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		<title>MARK YOUR JEWISH Calendar: Schtick Launch Party March 27 @ The Second City&#8217;s Up Comedy Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; TICKETS WILL BE FREE &#38; AVAILABLE FROM THE SECOND CITY BOX OFFICE SOON! &#8220;As a poet once observed, &#8220;Poetry is the music of facts.&#8221; Kevin Coval&#8217;s poetry rings with that music. From the grit and turmoil of everyday life, Coval constructs a new beauty that inspires and transforms.&#8221; BERNIE SAHLINS, FOUNDER of The Second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincoval.com/kc/?p=258</link>
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		<title>why jews celebrate x-mas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[why jews celebrate x-mas i. it’s the only time of the year all my mom’s people could get off work. ii. it’s a production. a. my grandma’s spread took days to lay out: swedish meat balls in a hot and sweet brown sauce. brisket in au jus (of course). mustard dip. farfalle primavera. caramels, cookies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincoval.com/kc/?p=251</link>
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		<title>KC on WTTW talking about &#8220;More Shit Chief Keef Don&#8217;t Like&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2012/10/25/kevin-coval-chief-keef &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincoval.com/kc/?p=245</link>
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		<title>&#8220;More Shit Chief Keef Don&#8217;t Like&#8221; Drops this Friday 7pm @Young Chicago Authors, 1180 N. Milwaukee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[from the Preface: Every institution in Chicago fails Black youth. Our city, as the young poet Malcolm London writes, is “a tale of two hoodies”: a segregated and systematically inequitable city, “a Jekyll-and-Hyde sort of burg” Nelson Algren would say. A town where white kids exist in an increasingly idyllic new urban utopia and Black [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincoval.com/kc/?p=232</link>
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		<title>Teachers Strike in The Chicago Tradition [AUDIO]</title>
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		<link>http://kevincoval.com/kc/?p=229</link>
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		<title>Teachers&#8217; Strike in The Chicago Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The revolution will not be standardized. The assault on public education started here. It needs to end here. Karen Lewis, CTU President &#160; of course the teachers march in Chicago. they know &#38; inherit &#38; honor the history of the many standing against the tyranny of the few &#160; this is a union town Most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincoval.com/kc/?p=223</link>
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		<title>#HeyMa is trending in Chicago on Mother’s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a song written by 18yr.-old Chance the Rapper. it is beautiful. today is a perfect May. outside families flower and plant and seed the front lawns. fathers in the park, sun is over head. the day is over due it is to over do. a day for your Ma. the only woman who gave you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincoval.com/kc/?p=212</link>
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		<title>Come see Kevin Coval’s solo show L-vis Live! @ Victory Gardens’ Biograph Theater March 27-April 14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[L-VIS LIVE! written and performed by Kevin Coval based on his book L-Vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems directed by Jess McLeod part of Victory Gardens’ Fresh Squeezed Series March 27 – April 14, 2012 Richard Christiansen Theater for more info &#38; tickets: http://victorygardens.org/onstage/l-vis.php Elvis. Eminem. Vanilla Ice. Al Jolson. A whiteboy rapper like so many whiteboy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincoval.com/kc/?p=194</link>
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		<title>rod blagojevich at the end of his run</title>
		<description><![CDATA[listen to the poem HERE (from WBEZ\&#8217;s 848 on 12/8/11) &#160; he runs south on a northbound one-way right in the middle of Sacramento Ave. &#160; he lives just to the east in Ravenswood Manor. i live just to the west in Albany Park. &#160; i am walking the dog. &#160; we turn right (west) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincoval.com/kc/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Hip-hop poetry confessional(from the Chicago Tribune 11/20/11)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Coval offers rhythmic guide to racial landscape in &#8216;L-Vis Lives!&#8217; It is an extraordinary experience to watch a poet grow before your eyes, and that is what Kevin Coval has been doing ever since a meeting on an &#8220;L&#8221; platform in 2004. He was then, like many young poets (he was not yet 30), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincoval.com/kc/?p=180</link>
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