[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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Let Me Tell You What A Poem Brings
for Charles Fishman/ Before you go further,/ let me tell you what a poem brings,/ first, you must know the secret, there is no poem/ to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries
Juan Felippe Herrara Let Me Tell You What A Poem Brings
Why do I spend endless hours with poetry? Why do I search and search to find poems that speak new languages to new parts of my soul? Why do I write at all when poets say everything so much better?
I like the idea of a poem as a way to attain a life without boundaries. Poetry as a perfect conversation. Poetry as practice with words. Poetry as structure and form within a simple frame, a far simpler frame than the everyday. Poetry as a just economy of truth where everything is fair and intentional and everything matters. Poetry as simultaneously and immediately the particular and the universal, the individual and the communal, the delicate and the fierce. Poetry as details, music, and story.
Maybe that is why all my poetry searching is not a waste of time?
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.
