Kevin Coval is the author of Schtick, described by Chicago Tribune as “a sensational collection, alternately heartfelt, humorous and provocatively political.” His other books include L-vis Lives! Racemusic Poems, Everyday People and the American Library Association Book of the Year Finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica. Coval is the founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, Artistic Director at Young Chicago Authors and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Schtick is the tale of Jewish assimilation and its discontents;a sweeping exposition on Jewish-American culture in all its bawdy, contradictory, and inventive glory. Exploring how Jews shed minority status in America—in his own family and in culture and politics at large—poet Kevin Coval shows us a people’s transformation out of diaspora, landing on both sides of the color line.
