Friday Reading Event for Students

The following was in my e-mail, and may interest you. I saw Coval read once, and it was quite entertaining.

Columbia's Silver Tongue and Verbatim present:
KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY
featuring Kevin Coval and Ismail Khalidi

FRIDAY, November 20th, 6:00pm
Quincy Wong Center, 623 S. Wabash, 1st Floor.

FREE and Open To The Public

6:00 -- SILVER TONGUE -- student readings followed by a poetic conversation about Israel and Palestine with Kevin Coval and Ismail Khalidi.
7:00 -- Discussion with Coval and Khalidi, dinner from Jimmy Johns.
8:00 -- SLAM -- hosted by VERBATIM. Come sign-up to participate!

KEVIN COVAL is the author of everyday people (EM Press, Nov.'08) and slingshots (a hip-hop poetica) (EM Press, Nov. '05), named Book of the Year-finalist by The American Library Association. Coval's poems have appeared in many periodicals and journals, on radio and TV, and have been performed on four continents in seven countries. Co-founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, the largest youth poetry festival in the world, Coval is poet-in-residence at The Jane Addams’ Hull House Museum at The University of Illinois-Chicago and poet-in-residence at The University of Chicago’s Newberger Hillel Center. He also teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Playwright and performer ISMAIL KHALIDI graduated from Macalester College in 2005. He made his playwriting debut with Truth Serum Blues at the Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis. Khalidi has performed in several theatrical productions, including With Love from Ramalla and his work has been published in Mizna and Electronic Intifada. He recently received the Playwright Center's Many Voices residency award, a SASE/Jerome greant, and an Emerging Voices grant.

SILVER TONGUE is a student-curated series featuring word-based readings of any genre.

VERBATIM provides students with the opportunity to experience, learn, and create performance poetry beyond the classroom setting as a means of expression and self-exploration.

For more information, or to submit to participate in this SILVER TONGUE reading, please contact:
Dave Snyder -- dsnyder@colum.edu, 312-369-7459