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X. J. Kennedy

XJ Kennedy brought the house down with his final poem. He explained that one of his colleagues was bemoaning the creationists among the student body complaining about being taught Darwin's theory of evolution in science class. Kennedy later wrote a poem inspired by the ordeal to the music of the Jazz tune "Somebody Stole My Gal" by Leo Wood, calling it "Somebody Stole My Myths".

Poet to Poet speaks with X. J. Kennedy

Talking about X. J. Kennedy

Children's poet X.J. Kennedy is the subject of this episode of the SPOTLIGHT ON NCTE POETS video series with Lee Bennett Hopkins and Renee LaTulippe of No Water River.