[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
At the Spring Dawn
Ah! It is good to be alive, good to love, At the dawn, At the spring dawn. From Angelina Weld Grimke's, "At the Spring Dawn" How good it is to be alive. How good it is to be alive. How good it is to be alive. How ...
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Poetry
The Spring Has Many Silences
The spring has many silences:Buds are mysteriously unboundWith a discreet significance,And buds say nothing.From Laura Riding Jackson's "The Spring Has Many Silences" I find spring silence comforting. In her silence, she has known winter. In her s...
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Poetry
One More Love Poem
I’ll count all my days,even the nine months of days before I was born, to say this exponential, growing “I love you.” From "One More Love Poem," by Dunya Mikhail This poem makes me think about creative love — the love it takes give bir...
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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.
