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Breakbeat Creatives is a multifaceted, future-facing creative hub and brand development consultancy group that helps companies, organizations, institutions, cities, communities and individuals tell stories to grow brand love and awareness.

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We are creatives telling stories, leading strategy, providing creative direction, and developing unique experiences URL and IRL. We work with award-winning creatives from across the country and in creative spaces with brands and companies from around the globe.

We facilitate relationships between artists, businesses, civic organizations with a penchant for the betterment of the public domain. We all have stories to tell. We want to help you tell yours.

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“Chicago-based poet and educator Kevin Coval has one of the strongest and most long-standing literary visions in the city.” —Chicago Tribune

“Kevin Coval made me understand what it is to be a poet, what it is to be an artist, and what it is to serve the people.”—Chance the Rapper

"One of my favorite poets.” — Mos Def

"Kevin Coval is a new, glowing voice in the world of literature." — Studs Terkel

About the founder

Kevin Coval

Kevin Coval is an Emmy-nominated, award-winning poet, playwright, author, screenwriter, and editor of over ten collections, & anthologies including The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the age of Hip-Hop and A People's History of Chicago. Coval is a creative consultant and founder of Breakbreat Creatives, a creative agency that helps brands such as Apple, Nike, Adidas, Beats, Gatorade and more, tell stories, build innovative programming, and connect to local artistic communities in authentic and meaningful ways. His writing has been featured on/in The Daily Show, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Source Magazine, Slam and WSLAM, Rock the Bells, Sarasota Magazine, CNN.com, four seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam & more. He has been awarded grants, fellowships and residencies from the MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, The Kennedy Center, Lannan Foundation and more and has shared stages with The Migos & Nelson Mandela performing on four continents across hundreds of cities around the globe.