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Kurt Boone
Kurt Boone (born 1959) is an author who is a native of Brooklyn, New York City. His parents are Elliott W. Boone Sr. and Thelma Strothers Boone. He attended Andrew Jackson High School and was on the track team and basketball team. He started writing poetry in his first year at LaGuardia Community College and become a sports reporter for York College's ''Pandora Box'' and Los Angeles City College ''LA Collegian''. The first book he ever wrote was for the Yale Series of Younger Poet Contest. He did not win but the contest inspired him to write more books.
==Career==
In 1990 he became a foot messenger with Rapid Messenger Service in New York City and started to become known as a fast courier and talented poet, performing poetry at many New York City events. That eventually led him to produce his first book of poems, ''Looking For Myself'', which was published in 1996. By that time he had left Rapid Messenger Service in 1994. In addition in the 1990s he was also be a sales representative for the ''Quarterly Black Review of Books'' and later a marketing representative for the Harlem Book Fair, a division of ''QBR''. In 2000 he again went back into messenger work, but this time he would document his experiences in books and videos.
Since 2000 in his 12 years as a messenger, he has been reported upon in the media and made the cover of ''Courier Magazine'', with the front headline: "Nobody knows The Gritty Streets of NYC better than Kurt Boone."〔Brennan, Vincent (July/August 2010). ("Foot Soldier: Nobody Knows the Gritty Streets of NYC Better Than Kurt Boone" ), ''Courier Magazine''. Accessed May 2012.〕 Feature stories about Boone have been published in ''The New York Times'', ''New York Daily News'', ''New York Post'' and ''Metro New York''. Boone's writing work has also lead to opportunities in film and video. He appears in ''Verse: A Murder Mystery'' (2011), ''Career Courier: The Labor Of Love'' (2011) and produced ''The Messenger Poet Show'' (2011), a web television series.
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