Kalli Dakos (born June 16, 1950) is a

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and

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. She was born in

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, Canada and graduated from Queen's University, earning BAH and BEd degrees.

Bibliography

*1995:''If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School'' *1997:''Get Out of the Alphabet Number 2: Wacky Wednesday Puzzle Poems'' *1996:''The Goof Who Invented Homework and Other School Poems'' *1998:''Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! More Poems About School'' *1999:''Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll'' *2000:"The Greatest Magic: Poems for Teachers" (Only available for distribution through school markets) *2002:''The Bug in Teacher's Coffee and Other School Poems'' *2004:''Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig'' (with Alice Desmarteau) *2006:''Put Your Eyes Up Here and Other School Poems'' *2010:"I Heard You Twice the First Time" *2011:"A Funeral in The Bathroom"

References

1950 births Living people Canadian women children's writers Canadian women poets Writers from Ottawa 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers {{Canada-poet-stub