Kevin Coval is a poet and activist who grew up in the Chicago suburbs and attended Ohio University, the University of Wales, and DePaul University. His socially engaged poems combine personal experience and appeals to action. Everything Must Go (2019), Schtick: Jewish Assimilation and Its Discontents (2013), and L-vis Lives! Racemusic poems (2011), Everyday People (2008), and Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica) (2005), which was a finalist for the Ame...