[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
Phenomenal Woman
I say,It’s in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need for my care. ’Cause I’m a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That’s me.From Maya Angel...
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Poetry
On Turning Ten
It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine.But now if I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.From Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten" I remember learning in gra...
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Poetry
Man With Blue Guitar
I cannot bring a world quite round,/ Although I patch it as I can.// I sing a hero's head, large eye/ And bearded bronze, but not a man,// Although I patch him as I can/ And reach through him almost to man.// If to serenade almost to man/ Is to miss,...
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Poetry
Not Writing
I am not writing anything that anyone has requested of me or is waiting/ on, not a poetics essay or any other sort of essay, not a roundtable response, not interview responses, not writing prompts for younger writers,/ not my thoughts...
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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.
