[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
Autumn Leaves
The dead piled up, thick, fragrant, on the fire escape. My mother ordered me again, and again, to sweep it clean. All that blooms must fall. I learned this not from the Dao, but from high school biology. From "Autumn Leaves" by Marilyn Chin All th...
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Poetry
Lesson of the Falling Leaves
the leaves believesuch letting go is lovesuch love is faithsuch faith is gracesuch grace is godi agree with the leaves.Lucille Clifton I agree with the leaves, too. I believe in a deciduous journey towards Love. As we let go, show love, have faith...
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Poetry
Fiftieth Birthday Eve
The figure alone is enough to keep me wide awake, the five with its little station master's belly and cap with the flat visor, followed by the zero, oval of looking glass, porthole on a ghost ship, an opening you stick your arm in...
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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.
