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
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!! 🎉🥂
★ “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
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
★ “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
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
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.
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)
“[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
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