Roxanna Bennett Micro-interview POEMS The Trick Featuring this poet Lesson PlanDisability/ Sick Poetics Publications James Wright James Wright was an American poet who wrote about loneliness, alienation and the lives of the disenfranchised, often drawing on his native… Gertrude Stein Born to a wealthy family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Gertrude Stein was an experimental writer whose work has influenced generations of poets. She… Thomas Gray Though the English poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771) only published thirteen poems in his lifetime, he is still considered one of the great literary…