Course Work Archives - Page 15 of 31 - Katie Steedly

[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!

Melanie Faith

Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.

Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.

The Society of Professional Journalists

In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.

I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.

Maxine Greene

Philosopher and Education Scholar

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MONDAYS ARE FREE 091 — 095

Beauty. Memory. Youth. Kindness. EXERCISE 091: WRITE TO SOMEONE you something beautiful Write an epistolary poem to someone who showed you something beautiful which you maybe otherwise would never have encountered or considered beautiful. ...

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The Song That Wasn’t Just a Song

The Remembered Sound I grew up on the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky. The River is a mile wide there. There are River sounds. Waterfalls flowing over fossil beds. Riverboat calliopes bouncing tunes like clouds and ice cream trucks. Frogs singi...

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MONDAYS ARE FREE 086 — 090

Poetry. Bragging. Spaceships. Suns. EXERCISE 086: BE PEDANTIC a poem that knows everything Write an unbearably pedantic poem, a poem that knows everything and wants you to know just how much it knows and wants to teach it to you too. A poem ...

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MONDAYS ARE FREE 081 — 085

Bricks. Gardens. Gratitude. Hurts. Peroneal Tendons. EXERCISE 081: RESTRUCTURE YOUR CITY In the Taiwanese film What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001), the main character is a street vendor of watches. A young woman who is abo...

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