Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈

poet, CEO of @ed_emcees, & author of HOW THE BOOGEYMAN BECAME A POET repped by @pande_literary @pandelectures @harpercollins

[HarperStacks 📚 @HarperStacks]

There are many ways to experience poetry, and @tonykeithjr has something for everyone! #NationalPoetryMonth

🖊️HOW THE BOOGEYMAN BECAME A POET is a YA memoir in verse
🎧...and it's an Odyssey Award for Audiobook Excellence Winner!
📓KNUCKLEHEAD is an affirming collection of poems

[Kirkus Audiobook Reviews @KirkusAudiobook]

#ROTD #AudiobookReview Hip-hop artist @tonykeithjr narrates his free-verse coming-of-age memoir. His skill as a narrator is evident as he delivers lyrical imagery mixed with dialect. #BestAudiobooks2024 @HarperAudio https://t.co/YPyX2Zy8IE

[HarperStacks 📚 @HarperStacks]

Congrats to our Odyssey Award Winner, How the Boogeyman Became a Poet and Honors, Girls Like Her and Dispatches from Parts Unknown!

@tonykeithjr

[Annie Hwang @AnnieAHwang]

Happy paperback pub to this gorgeous gem of a book 🤩

A cross between "a slam poetry reading and an intimate conversation between friends," the audiobook has just won the ALA's Odyssey Award for Audiobook Excellence!! 🎙🎧 🏆 📘

Congratulations, @tonykeithjr!! 🎉🥂

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

★ “Searing language and palpable messaging permeate” @tonykeithjr’s KNUCKLEHEAD, a YA poetry collection “that’s sure to inspire the eponymous knuckleheads and beyond to find their voice and use it for liberation” https://t.co/IHwZmaZINB

[Pande Literary @pande_literary]

A starred review for @tonykeithjr's KNUCKLEHEAD (out this February) just dropped! 🌟 @PublishersWkly calls it a "dazzling, from-the-heart poetry collection" with "searing language and palpable messaging."
https://t.co/iLHjdlyCuf

[PWKidsBookshelf is now on Bluesky @PWKidsBookshelf]

★ “Searing language and palpable messaging permeate” @tonykeithjr’s KNUCKLEHEAD, a YA poetry collection “that’s sure to inspire the eponymous knuckleheads and beyond to find their voice and use it for liberation” https://t.co/w3CwFQUItr

[Pande Literary @pande_literary]

Awesome to see our author @tonykeithjr kick off the #NVNR2024 conference with his powerful performance of 'Poetry to the Rescue'! 📚✨ Check out @publisherswkly's recap of the event 👇https://t.co/C6KSm6yNVa

[Annie Hwang @AnnieAHwang]

Congratulations to @tonykeithjr whose ✨glowing✨ @sljournal review by @MitziMac5 just went live!

https://t.co/Qa2LSoCnUm

[Pande Lecture Management @pandelectures]

Fantastic review of @tonykeithjr's HOW THE BOOGEYMAN BECAME A POET by the @sljournal! https://t.co/SgpJSWVXid

[Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈 @tonykeithjr]

@NeoNirvanaMicah YA makes up 92% of what I read these days as I love it here.

[Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈 @tonykeithjr]

I only came here to tell y’all that I’ve had four Mai Tais…

[Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈 @tonykeithjr]

@ItsJustJAG_ @NellaWrites @FatalBook @BryantDeBerry @imglamel @shayshaydena @missjillscott @rapsody I see this happening!

[Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈 @tonykeithjr]

ha! started writing a joint on May 11, 2022 — ain’t seen it in two years, but whewwwww it def explains exactly what I’m feeling rn. I love that poetry can do this: affirm.

[Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈 @tonykeithjr]

def pulling one of the drafts of these poems I got in some kind of form on my Notes app tonight…

[Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈 @tonykeithjr]

protect your peace

[Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈 @tonykeithjr]

just saw the early art sketches for my 2nd book #Knucklehead (a YA poetry collection to Black boys and men, especially the gay/queer ones, and the folks who love us) - y'all ngl, this joint is gonna be extra hot flaming firreeeeee (Winter 2025)

[Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈 @tonykeithjr]

it me!!!

[Pande Lecture Management @pandelectures]

“[The most powerful element of hip hop] is knowledge of self…which means simply the more I know about who I am, where I come from... the more powerful I can be in the world as a DJ, MC, as a graffiti artist, as a break dancer, educator,” @tonykeithjr
https://t.co/EDjjWlKSdU

[Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈 @tonykeithjr]

I still ain’t on here like that frfr, but just wanted to share that I need a mf’n vacation. this book(ed) and busy tour is wearing ya boy ouuuut!!! I still got gas in the tank tho, but wheewwww I deserve rest!!!!! like 16-18 hours of unconscious REM is needed

[Tony Keith Jr., PhD. ✊🏿❤️🏳️‍🌈 @tonykeithjr]

ayyyyy love to see Boogeyman on this list via @PublishersWkly #howtheboogeymanbecameapoet https://t.co/tCPeT7WRBG