Kurt Boone

Kurt Boone is an author. Who is a native of New York City and was born in Brooklyn in 1959. His parents are Elliott W. Boone Sr. and Thelma Strothers Boone. He attend Andrew Jackson High School and was on the track team and basketball team. He started writing poetry in his freshman year at LaGuardia Community College and become a sports reporter for York College "Pandora Box and Los Angeles City College "LA Collegian". The first book he ever wrote was for Yale Series of Younger Poet Contest. He did not win but the contest inspire 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 poetry events. That would eventually lead him to his first book of poem "Looking For Myself" which was published in 1996. By that time he had left Rapid Messenger Service in 1994. In addition in the 1990's he was also be a sales representative for the Quarterly Black Review of Books and later a marketing representative for 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. The Courier Magazine front cover headline was titled "Nobody knows The Gritty Streets Of NYC better than Kurt Boone." 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.

Books

 * "Looking For Myself" Poetry by Kurt Boone (1996) ISBN 0-8059-3570-3
 * "Inside Grand Central Terminal" A Photo Essay by Kurt Boone (2006) ISBN 978-0-9789946-0-0
 * "Urban Theory: Critical Thoughts In America" by Kurt Boone & Noreen Mallory (2007) ISBN 978-1-6048-1214-5
 * "On The Subway" Poetry by Kurt Boone (2008) ISBN 978-1-934690-00-0
 * "Messenger Poet" by Kurt Boone and illustration by Greg Ugalde (2009) ISBN 978-1-934690-23-9
 * "Asphalt Warrior: The Story of New York City's Fastest Messenger" by Kurt Boone (2011) ISBN 978-1-934690-29-1

Additional sources

 * Johnson, Lynsey (2 October 2007). "His message is delivered - in a new book". New York Daily News. Accessed May 2012.
 * DeJohn, Irving (27 July 2010). "Messenger Of Literary Hope." New York Daily News. Accessed May 2012.
 * Brennan, Vincent (July/August 2010). "Foot Soldier: Nobody Knows the Gritty Streets of NYC Better Than Kurt Boone." Courier Magazine. Accessed May 2012.
 * Bowen, Alison (29 March 2011). "60 Seconds with...the Delivery Man." Metro New York. Accessed May 2012.