[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
The Summer Day
Who made the world?/ Who made the swan, and the black bear?/ Who made the grasshopper?/ This grasshopper, I mean—/ the one who has flung herself out of the grass,/ the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,/ who is moving her jaws back and forth i...
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Poetry
Poetry Might Save Us Now
Considering Inaugural Poetry Poetry sculpts words. Poetry builds hope. Poetry restores faith. United States Presidential Inaugural Poetry can focus our gaze on our better angels — above the cruelty of dehumanization, above the violence of war, a...
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Poetry
Praise the Rain
Praise crazy. Praise sad.Praise the path on which we’re led.Praise the roads on earth and water.Praise the eater and the eaten.Praise beginnings; praise the end.Praise the song and praise the singer.Praise the rain; it brings more rain.Praise the r...
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Poetry
Widening Circles
I live my life in widening circlesthat reach out across the world.I may not complete this last onebut I give myself to it. From Rainier Maria Rilke, "Widening Circles" We must give ourselves to widening circles. Our widening circles hold multitude...
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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.
