[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 … Â 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
Paying Attention, Poetry
Theories of Time and Space
You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Natasha Trethewey, from "Theories of Time and Space" In her poem, Theories of Time and Space, Natasha Trethewey describes her experience going home to Gulfport, Mississippi. Tretheweyâ€...
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Course Work, Poetry
Diving into the Wreck
I came to explore the wreck./ The words are purposes./ The words are maps./ I came to see the damage that was done/ and the treasures that prevail. From "Diving into the Wreck" — Adrienne Rich Poetry as diving. Poetry as moving in...
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Poetry
The Generations I Praise
Yesterday the beauty of early dawn/ came over me, and I wondered who// my heart would reach toward. Then/ this morning again, and you. Who// am I? Wind and fire and watery/ ground move me mightily because// they're pregnant with love, love/ pregnant ...
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Course Work, Poetry
Ode to Sitting in a Booth
No matter how loud/ this bar, within these three walls we can drop straight into a very electric flight. We can/ pretend we don’t answer to anyone–including/ the waitress–& no one even knows where we are. Aimee Nezhukumatathi...
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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.
