Ann Kelly Cox About me Normal, Illinois By this poet Lesson PlanEkphrasis: Using Art to Inspire Poetry James Wright James Wright was an American poet who wrote about loneliness, alienation and the lives of the disenfranchised, often drawing on his native… John Dryden The influential English Restoration poet John Dryden (1631-1700) was born in Northamptonshire and was the oldest of 14 children. He established the… Ashley-Elizabeth Best Ashley-Elizabeth Best is a disabled poet and essayist from Kingston, Ontario. Her work can be found in New Welsh Review, CV2, Ambit Magazine, The…