[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
Time pummels
Here they are:WordsArranged inHopeful lines,PatientAs seedsIn their furrows.What is your voiceIf not the rain?From Gregory Orr's "Time pummels" Time does, in fact, pummel. Death happens. Cruelty happens. Failure happens. That is time. Joy happens....
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Poetry
Go To The Limits Of Your Longing
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.Just keep going. No feeling is final.Don’t let yourself lose me.From Rainer Maria Rilke, "Go to the Limits of Your Longing" No feeling is final. Let that sink in. Thank you Rilke. Thank you Rilke. ...
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Poetry
Gertrude: In The Rooms
Oracular and Eternal was what we’d thought she was. In possession of the answer. Instead, her image and her words— It will bring you to your knees turned us back into ourselves. where the...
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Poetry
a note on the body
but you live oh, you liveeveryday you wake you raise the deadeverything you do is a miracleFrom Danez Smith's "a note on the body." Everything you do is a miracle. Let that sink in. Miracle is a word, right up there with sacred...
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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.
