Advance review copies available National drive-time radio tour Local TV, radio, and print interview, features, and reviews Major Chicago book launch "bar mitvah" event at Second City Chicago with Louder than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival Features in Heeb, Zeek, Jewcy Advertising in various Jewish and Poetry publications and websites Excerpts in Tikkun, Progressive.org, Mondoweiss, Nation.com Published to coincide with April National Poetry Month, Passover Seder, Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival Promotion on the author's websites, www.kevincoval.com, www.youngchicagoauthors.org, www.newschoolpoetics.com Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements

Schtick is the tale of Jewish assimilation and its discontents. It is 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 - up-and-coming poet Kevin Coval illustrates a people's transformation out of diaspora, landing on both sides of the colour line. Coval has been described as a new, glowing voice in the world of literature' by Studs Terkel.'