[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
Oh Sumptuous moment
Oh Sumptuous moment/ Slower go/ That I may gloat on thee -// 'Twill never be the same to starve/ Now I abundance see -// Which was to famish, then or now -// The difference of Day/ Ask him unto the Gallows led -// With morning in the sky - Emily Dic...
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Poetry
The Most Alive Moment
The most living moment comes whenthose who love each other meet each/other's eyes and in what flowsbetween them then. To see your face/in a crowd of others, or alone on a frightening street, I weep for that./Our tears improve the earth. The time you ...
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Poetry
Notes on the Below
All my life, I’ve lived above the ground,/ car wheels over paved roads, roots breaking through/concrete,/ and still I’ve not understood the reel of this life’s purpose. From Ada Limon's "Notes on the Below" I grew up above ground and in love...
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Poetry
Nine Verses of the Same Song
The ear finely attuned/ to the extravagant music/ of yellow pears ripening in the scrolled light/ of orchards as if the world/ were perfect/ hears the cicada burst its shell From Wendell Berry's "Nine Verses of the Same Song" This time of year ha...
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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.
