Course Work Archives - Page 3 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 EXERCISES 196—200

Flossing. Customer Service. Rage. Hope. Ducks. EXERCISE 196: PUSH THE SUBJECT you would never Write a poem about an activity you engage in that you would never think to write a poem about. Flossing I recently read we should floss aft...

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Living the Comma #20

Instructions. Purple. Advice. Essays. Sermons. Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. — Mary Oliver Dear Writer Friends, I got my nails painted deep purple pink. They are now the color of th...

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MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 191-195

Re-writes. A Phone Number. Darkness. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod. EXERCISE 191: ENGAGE THE ORIGIN, PART I re-write the first Re-write the first poem you ever wrote. [I am re-writing the first MONDAYS ARE FREE exercise — a poem abou...

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Living the Comma #19

Gratitude. Aliveness. Books. Brother David Steindl-Rast. Oldster. Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.― Brother David Steindl-Ra...

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