How the Boogeyman Became a Poet

The depiction of struggling through a world that centers heterosexuality and whiteness in How the Boogeyman Became a Poet will resonate with contemporary teenagers.

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Review of ‘How the Boogeyman Became a Poet’

Tony Keith Jr. started writing poems at age 13, and by his senior year of high school in 1999, he’s a well-liked kid with a beautiful girlfriend, a poet voted Prom King and the first in his family to go to college.

But Keith’s perfect life is an illusion: His family is struggling financially after…

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