Poetry Archives - Page 67 of 95 - 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

A Visit From St. Nicholas

by Clement Clark Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;The children were nest...

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In the Year That’s Come and Gone

In the year that’s come and gone, love, his flying feather/ Stooping slowly, gave us heart, and bade us walk together./ In the year that’s coming on, though many a troth be broken,/ We at least will not forget aught that love hath spoken.In the y...

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This Is Not a Small Voice

This is not a small loveyou hear this is a largelove, a passion for kissing learningon its face. ... This is a love initialed Black Genius.This is not a small voiceyo...

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Estranged from Beauty – none can be-

Estranged from Beauty - none can be -/ For Beauty is Infinity -/ And power to be finite ceased/ Before identity was leased.Emily Dickinson I am grateful that we are all connected to Beauty in a deep down, molecular, big, cosmic way. I am grateful ...

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