Poetry Archives - Page 49 of 94 - 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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Poetry

Something with a Lifespan

How many times/ should I look at you and should/ I change my life? - Katie Peterson, Something with a Lifespan Butterflies make sense to me. Elemental change is their lifecycle. Miracles are their constitution. They grow in perfect time. Their bri...

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Poetry

Widening Circles

I live my life in widening circlesthat reach out across the world.I may not complete this last onebut I give myself to it. From Rainier Maria Rilke, "Widening Circles" We must give ourselves to widening circles. Our widening circles hold multitude...

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Dirtbag

There are so many different people to hate, so I keep things simple and hate everyone. Leigh Lucas, Dirtbag Hating everyone is so simple. As long as you hate everyone you don't have to find a particular reason for any of it. Hating everyone throws...

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Poetry

The Judgment Tale

Over the growing shadows fell the dead weight of light. Valzhyna Mort, The Judgment Tale Light's dead weight. Is that simply the weight of sight? Is that the weight of truth, transparency, shine, knowing, stillness? Is there a difference betwee...

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