Poetry Archives - 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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Desperate for Magic, Ready for Love

“For now just remember how you felt the day you were born: desperate for magic, ready to love.” Kate Baer, from What Kind of Woman I am still desperate for magic and ready for love. I am comforted knowing this has been the primordial cas...

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One More Love Poem

I’ll count all my days,even the nine months of days before I was born, to say this exponential, growing “I love you.” From "One More Love Poem," by Dunya Mikhail This poem makes me think about creative love — the love it takes give bir...

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The poems we love – what are they … ?

The poems we love—what are they Made of?Nothing. From Gregory Orr, "The poems we love — what are they . . ." In a silent world, the poems we love are speech. In a broken world, the poems we love are whole. In a fearful world, the poems we love...

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Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World

Why write love poetry in a burning world?/ To train myself, in the midst of a burning world/ to offer poems of love to a burning world. Katie Farris I write love poetry. The practice of writing, for me, is an exercise in strengthening love's muscl...

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