List of Canadian Poets - K

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• Surjeet Kalsey, poet, dramatist, short story writer and translator who writes in both Punjabi and English
• Smaro Kamboureli, poet and academic
• Lionel Kearns (born 1937), poet and teacher
• M. T. Kelly (born 1946), novelist, poet and playwright.
• Penn Kemp, novelist, playwright, poet and sound poet
• Leo Kennedy (1907–2000), modernist poet, published in 1930s.
• Robert Kirkland Kernighan (1854–1926), poet, journalist and farmer
• Roy Kiyooka (1926–1994), photographer, poet and artist
• Johann Peter Klassen (1868–1947), Russian Mennonite poet and writer who immigrated to Canada in 1923 and wrote primarily in German
• Sarah Klassen (born 1932), poet and fiction writer
• A. M. Klein (1909–1972), poet, journalist, novelist, and short story writer
• Raymond Knister (1899–1932), novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and journalist
• Joy Kogawa (born 1935), poet and novelist
• Maka Kotto (born 1961), Cameroon-born francophone Canadian, provincial level politician, former Canadian House of Commons member who published a book of poetry in 2002
• Shane Koyczan (born 1976), spoken word poet
• Robert Kroetsch (born 1927)), novelist, poet, non-fiction writer and academic
• Janice Kulyk Keefer (born 1952), novelist, poet and academic