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Published
2024
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Subgenre
Memoir
ISBN
9780063296022
Section
Young Adult

How the Boogeyman Became a Poet

Tony Keith Jr. recounts growing up a closeted gay Black teen facing poverty and homophobia, and finding freedom in poetry as a first-generation college student.

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