[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
Still I Rise
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.From "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou This is one of the poems we memorize. I have theory about the poems we memorize....
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Poetry
A Woman Speaks
Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwrittenbut when the sea turns backit will leave my shape behind. From Audre Lorde's "A Woman Speaks" I am thinking about the moon's marks and the sun's touch. I am thi...
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Poetry
After Henry
"we never reach a point at which our lives lie before us as a clearly marked open road, never have and never should expect a map to the years ahead, never do close those circles that seem, at thirteen and fourteen and nineteen, so urgently in need of...
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Poetry
Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film
Aging, at all. I want that. And to fall/ perhaps most honestly in love/ beside the ocean, in a home I've paid/ for by doing as I like: drinking good wine, dusting sugar over a croissant, or the stage play I am writing myself into. Rio Cortez At 15...
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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.
