[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
A Portable Paradise
And if I speak of Paradise,then I’m speaking of my grandmotherwho told me to carry it alwayson my person, concealed, sono one else would know but me.From "A Portable Paradise" by Roger Robinson Last week I smelled peonies. I told my friend, who ...
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Poetry
After Graduate School
Needless to say I support the forsythia’s waragainst the dull colored houses, the beagle deciphering the infinitely complicated universeat the bottom of a fence post. I should be gussying upmy resume, I should be dusting off my protestant work...
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Poetry
Japanese Hokku
XIIThe poetry of life?No, the picture of my dreams Flashing on my heart.From "Japanese Hokku" by Lewis Grandison Alexander I started writing about one poem a day as a writing practice several months ago. (This came on the heals of years of da...
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Poetry
Let Me Begin Again
Dear Glacier, Dear Sea of Stars, Dear Leopards disintegrating at the outer limits of our greed; soon we will encounter you only in motivational tweets.Reader, I should have married you sooner. This time, let me not sleep like the ...
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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.
