Kenn nesbitt poems for grade 4
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Category: Biographies
About Kenn Nesbitt
Several times a day, most days of the week, I receive email from students requesting biographical information for a school paper. I love getting email from kids who enjoy reading my poetry, so feel free to drop me a line and say “hi.” As you can imagine, though, I get a lot of email. So please let me save you a little time by telling you a bit about myself. If you have any questions that aren’t answered below or on the Frequently Asked Questions page, please feel free to contact me. I will be happy to answer any specific questions that are not answered here.
Who I Am
I am 62 years old and I was born on February 20, 1962 in Berkeley, California. I grew up in Fresno and San Diego, California.
I now live in a big old house in Spokane, Washington, with my wife Ann, and our two cats, Thomas and Sancho.
My Poetry
My first children’s poem — Scrawny Tawny Skinner — was written in 1994 after having dinner with a friend whose 4-year-old daughter did everything she could to get out of eating her dinner. S
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Everyone knows that authors — even bestselling authors — are familiar with sting of rejection, many seeing their manuscripts turned down by a dozen publishing houses before getting published. Everyone, that is, except for Kenn Nesbitt. The first publisher he approached snapped up his work on sight.
And everyone knows that writers are a miserable lot, cursed with a need to suffer for their art. Everyone, that is, except for Kenn Nesbitt. “It’s a blast!” he declares of his itinerant literary lifestyle. “There’s nothing more fun than actually getting to perform my work and write with a couple hundred third-graders.”
And most of all, everyone knows that Ken is spelled with one N. Everyone, that is, except Kenn Nesbitt. In a fanciful moment in high school, he took the name Kenneth, experimented with it, and created on his own idiosyncratic spelling.
That ability to see beyond the ordinary is the reason that Nesbitt, who began his fulltime writing career after 20 years in the computer industry, was named this week as the children’s poet laureate of the United States by the Chicago-ba
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Kenn Nesbitt
American children's poet (born 1962)
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| Born | Owen Kenneth Glenn Nesbitt (1962-02-20) February 20, 1962 (age 62) Berkeley, California, United States |
| Spouse | Ann Nesbitt |
| Children | Max Nesbitt, Madison Nesbitt |
| www.poetry4kids.com | |
Kenn Nesbitt (born February 20, 1962) in Berkeley, California, is an American children's poet.[1][2][3] On June 11, 2013, he was named Children's Poet Laureate[4][5] by the Poetry Foundation. He was the last one to receive this title before the Poetry Foundation changed its name to Young People's Poet Laureate.[6]
He is a writer of humorous poetry for children, including the books My Hippo Has the Hiccups and Revenge of the Lunch Ladies. Nesbitt has collaborated with poet Linda Knaus on a collection of Christmas poems entitled Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney and with children's musician Eric Herman on several CDs. His poems also appear in numerous anthologies of humorous children's poetry. Nesbitt's writing often inc
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