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Kenn Aylward Nesbitt is a children's poet He has written a number of collections of children's poetry, listed below, and he created the popular children's poetry website poetry4kids.com.

He was born on February 20, 1962 in Berkeley, California. He grew up in Fresno and San Diego, California, United States.

He is a writer of humorous poetry for children, including the books My Hippo Has the Hiccups and Revenge of the Lunch Ladies. Kenn Nesbitt has collaborated with poet Linda Knaus on one 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 includes imagery of outrageous happenings, before ending on a realistic note. Being children's poems, many make fun of school life.

Nesbitt wrote his first children's poem, Scrawny Tawny Skinner, in 1994. Later, he wrote several more poems. In 1997, he decided to write his first poetry book, My Foot Fell Asleep, which was published in 1998. After that, he continued to author more poetry books.

He also frequently visits schools to give fun poetry performances and workshops to students.

He lives in Spokane, Washington, with his wife Ann, his son Max, and his daughter Madison.

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