[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
Prayer of the Shy Forest
As a child, when I closed my eyes to pray I saw a hissing wall of TV snow. Jennifer L. Knox I remember when I started to pray. I was young and prayer involved swinging in the park in my neighborhood and singing church choir songs at the top of my ...
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Paying Attention, Poetry
Taking A Walk #16
Taking a walk with Ada Limón Instructions on Not Giving Up Patient, plodding, a green skin/ growing over whatever winter did to us, a return/ to the strange idea of continuous living despite/ the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. From Ada ...
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Poetry
Actually Very Simple
He came back from halfway around the world like that,/ tongue tied around him like a scarf. Everything set before him/ set to bursting. Jay Deshpande, Actually Very Simple I came home from Bali tongue tied and bursting. Told by a healer there I di...
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Poetry
Traveler There Is No Road
Traveler, there is no road;you make your own path as you walk. From Antonio Machado’s, “Traveler There Is No Road“ Just keep walking. Just keep walking. Just keep walking. I think about leaping and trusting in nets. I think about rainbows...
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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.
