[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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Category: Poetry
Poetry
Bee! I’m expecting you!
Bee! I'm expecting you!/ Was saying Yesterday/ To Somebody you know/ That you were due -// The Frogs got Home last Week -/ Are settled, and at work - Birds, mostly back -/ The Clover warm and thick -// You'll get my Letter by/ The seventeenth; Reply/...
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Poetry
‘Twould ease — a Butterfly
'Twould ease — a Butterfly —/ Elate — a Bee —/ Thou'rt neither —/ Neither — thy capacity –// But, Blossom, were I, I would rather be/ Thy moment/ Than a Bee's Eternity —// Content of fading/ Is enough for me —/ Fade I unto Divinity ...
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Poetry
Wonder Woman
She strutted by in all her strength and glory, invincible,eternal, and when I stood to clap (because who wouldn’t have),she bowed and posed like she knew I needed a myth—a woman, by a river, indestructible.”From Ada Limón's "Wonder Woman" A...
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Poetry
The Summer Day
Who made the world?/ Who made the swan, and the black bear?/ Who made the grasshopper?/ This grasshopper, I mean—/ the one who has flung herself out of the grass,/ the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,/ who is moving her jaws back and forth i...
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Born in 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.
