[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
Watch A One-Year-Old
Anger rises when you're proud/ of yourself. Humble that. Use// the contempt of others, and your/ own self-regarding, to change, like// the cloud in folklore that became/ three snake shapes. Or if you like// the dog-barking lion wrath, enjoy/ the hurt...
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Poetry
A Small Green Island
There is a small green island where one where one white cow lives/ alone, a meadow of an island.// The cow grazes till nightfall, full and fat, but during the/ night she panics and grows// thin as a single hair. "What shall I eat tomorrow? There's/ n...
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Poetry
Fourteen Questions
What if I broke off a whole branch/ of roses? What if I lost myself in// the Friend? How would it be to have/ no faith? What if I picked a pick-/pocket's pocket? Does it mean any-/thing when a single basket is lost/ in Baghdad, when one wheat grain i...
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Poetry
I have no Life but this
I have no Life but this -/ To lead it here -/ Nor any Death - but lest/ Dispelled from there-// Nor tie to Earths to come-/ Nor Action new -/ Except through this extent-/ The Realm of you-Emily Dickinson This poem reminds me of the concept of dhar...
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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.
