[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Category: Poetry

Premonition
The poet is in my ear, take notes, take notes, notes, notes, yes, notes. S. Brook Corfman I live with a poet in my ear. I live with a muse in my soul. I live paying attention and taking notes. Sometimes the poet screams telling me to do this o...
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Bright Passage
Not necessarily an urge, not immediacy, not definition as truth, but definition as when I notice the flex of my arm when I lift something heavy, to see a particular part working, straining, even, against something else, which is the measure of closin...
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Too Much Sky
You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautifu...
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from Panic Response
I write this while my hands are shaking. John McCullough, Glass Men We hold each other when our hands shake. We hold ourselves when our hands shake. We breathe. We search. We breathe again and again until we find our breath. We rock back and fort...
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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.