Hip hop poets Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval will present a free hip hop performance and workshop
"Race Mixing" at Owens Community College Oct. 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student
Health and Activities Center, off Oregon Road in Perrysburg Township.
The duo will also appear at the college’s Findlay campus in the Conference Center Room 111 on Oct. 26
with a workshop at 10 a.m. and performance at 2 p.m.
Goodwin and Coval will discuss using hip hop poetics to cross racial and social divides.
Goodwin’s "break beat poetry" has been featured on Russell Simmon’s HBO series "Def
Poetry" and published in the "Spoken Word Revolution Redux Anthology" as well as in many
literary journals. The Detroit native is the author of "These are the Breaks," a collection of
essays on hip hop, race and identity and has released an album of his performing his poetry "Break
Beat Poems,."
Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, Coval is the
author of ALA Book of the Year finalist "Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica)" and the subject of a
documentary of the same name, which airs on the OWN Network. He has just published "L-Vis Lives:
Racemusic Poems."
For more information about the performances and workshops, call (567) 661-2994.
