[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
Ways to Disappear
In the darkDown a stairwellThrough the doorwayGone westWith a new wishIn daylight From Camille Rankine's "Ways to Disappear" I have tried it all. To disappear. The whisper and the scream. The next door and the other side of the world. The obvious ...
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Poetry
Youth and Age
But now, though I am with eventide, my heart is still veiling down,// And though I am with Autumn, my ears still echo the songs of spring. Kahlil Gibran I feel the rhythm of age in my bones. The once distant now immediate song of feet that swell,...
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Poetry
The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac
I know, you never intended to be in this world./ But you’re in it all the same./ so why not get started immediately./ I mean, belonging to it./ There is so much to admire, to weep over./ And to write music or poems about. from The Fourth Sign of th...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: On Moving
Stasis is a sieve through which I drag myself. Jane Huffman, On Moving A sieve separates solids from liquids. I pour my thoughts and actions, my feelings and fears, my hopes and desires, my past and future, my stories and words, my ebbs and ...
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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.
