[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
My Cocoon tightens – Colors tease –
My Cocoon tightens - Colors tease -/ I'm feeling for the Air -/ A dim capacity for Wings/ Demeans the Dress I wear -// A power of Butterfly must be -/ The Aptitude to fly/ Meadows of Majesty implies/ And easy Sweeps of Sky -// So I must baffle at the...
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Poetry
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -/ Success in Circuit lies/ Too bright for our infirm Delight/ The Truth's superb surprise/ As Lightening to the Children eased/ With explanation kind/ The Truth must dazzle gradually/ Or every man be blind -Emily...
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Poetry
A word is dead
A word is dead/ When it is said,/ Some say./ I say it just/ Begins to live/ That day.Emily Dickinson As a writer, I know words begin to live the day they are written. Maybe they even begin to live the moment they are spoken? Maybe they even begin ...
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Poetry
Love – thou art high
Love - thou art high -/ I cannot climb thee -/ But, were it Two -/ Who knows but we -/ Taking turns - at the Chimborazo -/ Ducal - at last - stand up by thee-// Love - thou art deep - I cannot cross thee -/ But, were there Two/ Instead of One -/ Rowe...
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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.
