[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
I have no Life but this
I have no Life but this -/ To lead it here -/ Nor any Death - but lest/ Dispelled from there-// Nor tie to Earths to come-/ Nor Action new -/ Except through this extent-/ The Realm of you-Emily Dickinson This poem reminds me of the concept of dhar...
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Poetry
Aspiration
We climb the slopes of life with throbbing heart,/ And eager pulse, like children toward a star. Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Aspiration I love the climb. I love setting goals. My heart throbs. It is part of my wiring. I have always been that way. That...
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Poetry
Ode to My Socks
by Pablo Neruda Maru Mori brought me/ a pair/ of socks/ which she knitted herselfwith her sheepherder’s hands,/ two socks as soft/ as rabbits./ I slipped my feet/ into them/ as though into/ two/ cases/ knitted/ with threads of/ twilight/ and goa...
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Poetry
Starlings in Winter
Chunky and noisy,/ but with stars in their black feathers,/ they spring from the telephone wire/ and instantly// they are acrobats/ in the freezing wind./ And now, in the theater of air,/ they swing over buildings,// dipping and rising;/ they float l...
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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.
