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What Alyssa Liu, Punch, and exclusion have to teach us about what it means to grow up (feat. that one time Taylor Tomlinson asked me about being a…
Mar 25
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While you're waiting for TS 12 to drop
...let me tell you about the time I met someone who knows her in the Denver airport (TW: some mention of suicidality as relates to mental health care…
Oct 3, 2025
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Katherine Sleadd
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For when a friend disappears
A poem for those living without closure
Dec 16, 2024
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Katherine Sleadd
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The Greatest Thing
Reflections for Mother's Day on not wanting to be a mom.
May 13, 2024
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Katherine Sleadd
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I got rejected from HuffPost so you get my sloppy seconds
And honestly I’m tired of letting any writing go to waste, also my bruised ego needed you to know.
Aug 21, 2023
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Katherine Sleadd
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Barbie
An open letter to my estranged mother
Aug 13, 2023
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Katherine Sleadd
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The magic of Taylor Swift's re-recordings
How Taylor's music creates shimmering pathways to younger versions of ourselves. (And because this piece is about Speak Now TV, I recorded the article…
Jul 7, 2023
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Katherine Sleadd
Friday Night In
A recipe where injury leads to creativity: Grab a drink, go read some poetry, then take ten minutes to write a poem about being a poet.
Aug 6, 2022
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