Ann Kelly Cox About me Normal, Illinois By this poet Lesson PlanEkphrasis: Using Art to Inspire Poetry Charlotte Smith The English poet Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) was an unhappily married mother of twelve (only six children survived), who managed to write her first… Lauren Seal Lauren Seal is a writer and former Poet Laureate of St. Albert, Alberta. She mentors the teen and young adult poets of SWYC, the Spoken Word… Maggie Estep Maggie Estep was a spoken-word poet and novelist and born in 1963 in New Jersey. She is best known for popularizing slam poetry in the 1990s with…