Poetry Archives - Page 51 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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Category: Poetry

Poetry

Home Is A Women

our ride is silent from Kampala to Lirahe gives me a curious glance from the rearview mirror at my many faces looking at me while I hold on to my suitcasewhile I carry all the women living inside of meI carry them home Arao Ameny I have traveled a...

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Poetry

I Want Him to Know

I want him to know I am not lonely, I have ghosts, I have my illnesses, I have a mouthful of half-languages, & blood thick with medications, doctors line up to hear my crooked heart ― Safia Elhillo, The January Children I am not lonely, I ...

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Poetry

Ignore the Evils

I ignore the evils that support my quality of life, to which I’ve become accustomed. We’ve arranged to make the evils that benefit us invisible. Elisa Gabbert Do we actively make the evils that benefit us invisible or do we just ignore them? I...

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Poetry

The Value of Life

The value of a life, its worthiness of our moral regard, is determined by social relations. Elisa Gabbert, The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays The older I get the more I understand the truth in that statement. The value of a life is about...

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