[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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Time pummels
Here they are:
Words
Arranged in
Hopeful lines,
Patient
As seeds
In their furrows.What is your voice
From Gregory Orr’s “Time pummels“
If not the rain?
Time does, in fact, pummel. Death happens. Cruelty happens. Failure happens. That is time. Joy happens. Kindness happens. Creativity happens. That is time, too.
Somewhere, in all of it, words happen. Our voice happens. It is profoundly hopeful to see our voice as rain. If poems are seeds — and seeds are sustenance and potential, and our voice is rain — it follows that our voice feeds our soul and welcomes our potential.
What if life is poetry? Our hearts full. Our minds awake. Our words intentional. Each day in this lifetime is sacred, like prayer. As poets, we compose our days.
About Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
