So what exactly does a children’s poet laureate do, besides collect a $25,000 stipend? Nesbitt laughs when presented with the oft-asked question.

Kenn Nesbitt has been named the new Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation, for a two-year tenure.

Kenn Nesbitt understands the delight of children's poetry and his website proves it. This is why it’s such a delight that Nesbitt, 51, has been named Children’s Poet Laureate.

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Kenn Nesbitt, who lives in Spokane, Washington. Kenn began writing professionally about computers in 1990, and penned his first children's poem four ...

Nesbitt will celebrate the launch of “One Minute Till Bedtime” at Auntie’s Bookstore on Saturday. He’ll be joined by two local writers with poems in the collection: Chris Cook and Verla Kay.

The Poetry Foundation announced Tuesday that “Revenge of the Lunch Ladies” author Kenn Nesbitt will be its next children’s poet laureate, a position the foundation created in 2006 to ...

Which is one reason to applaud the work of writers such as Kenn Nesbitt . A former Children’s Poet Laureate, an honor bestowed by the Poetry Foundation , Nesbitt has written several collections ...

Courtesy photo / Kenn Nesbitt, the author of ‘Scrawny Tawny,” among other children’s books, will be a special guest at the Children’s Book Festival in Johnstown. “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia ...

The visits from Nesbitt, the 2013-15 U.S. Children's Poet Laureate, were sponsored by the Jackson District Library to help kick off its 2016 Young Poets Contest.