[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
The Last Thing
I knowyou don’t always understand,but let me point to the firstwet drops landing on the stones,the noise like fingers drummingthe skin. I can’t help it. I willnever get over making everythingsuch a big deal.From Ada Limon's "The Last Thing" I ...
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Poetry
Song Out Here
if i could singyou would hear me and i would tell youit’s gonna be alrightit’s gonna be alrightit’s gonna be alright it would be something like thatFrom Juan Felipe Herrera's "Song Out Here" Today I claim it's gonna be alright as a mantra. T...
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Poetry
The Soul has Bandaged moments
The Soul has Bandaged moments —/ When too appalled to stir —/ She feels some ghastly Fright come up/ And stop to look at her —// Salute her — with long fingers —/ Caress her freezing hair —/ Sip, Goblin, from the very lips/ The Lover — ...
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Poetry
The Moment
In every instant there's dying and coming back around./ Muhammad said, This world// is a moment, a pouring that refreshes and renews itself so/ rapidly it seems continuous,// as a burning stick taken from the fire looks like a golden/ wire when you s...
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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.
