[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
Looking at the Moon After Rain
The heavy clouds are broken and blowing, And once more I can see the wide common stretching beyond the four sides of the city.From "Looking at the Moon After Rain" by Li Po I fell in love with with storms a few years ago. We could see out ove...
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Poetry
All Along, I Laid, Halved
My third grade self played squash. My third grade self could have continued playing squash. &nbs...
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Poetry
Ode to the Sun
Shine on, O glorious sun!And never fail to cheerMy life so dark and drear.Whene’er thou shinest bright,And show thy brilliant light,The cares I know each daySilently steal away.From Eloise Bibb Thompson's "Ode to the Sun" The sun can heal. Just ...
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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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Born in 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.
