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[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

from “The Land”

"That was a spring of storms."From Vita Sackville-West's "The Land" My recent years have all been riddled with storms. Storms of all kinds. Perhaps that is the nature of the falling apart and coming together, the chaos and order, the terror and be...

Poetry

Late Echo

Only then can the chronic inattentionOf our lives drape itself around us, conciliatoryAnd with one eye on those long tan plush shadowsThat speak so deeply into our unprepared knowledgeOf ourselves, the talking engines of our day. From "Late Echo" by ...

Poetry

The Music We Are

Did you hear that winter's over? The basil/ and the carnations cannot control their// laughter. The nightingale, back from his/ wandering, has been made singing master// over the birds. The trees reach out their/ congratulations. The soul goes dancin...