[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
The Waiting
I was waiting for somethingto arrive. I didn’t know what.Something buoyed, somethingsun knocked. I placed my palmsup, little pads of butter, expecting.From Jane Wong's "The Waiting" I don't wait well. Waiting is uncomfortable. It's scary. It's p...
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Poetry
Sojourns in the Parallel World
No one discoversjust where we’ve been, when we’re caught up againinto our own sphere (where we mustreturn, indeed, to evolve our destinies)—but we have changed, a little.From Denise Levertov's "Sojourns in the Parallel World." I get lost, ju...
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Poetry
Perhaps the World Ends Here
The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.From Joy Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here" I agree with Harjo, a kitchen table carries a lot of weight. As a child, the kitchen table held a position of prominence in ...
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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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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.
