[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
A Psalm of Life
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!Let the dead Past bury its dead!Act—act in the glorious Present!Heart within, and God o'er head!From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's, "A Psalm of Life" The Present is a gift. I have read that statement over the yea...
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Poetry
In Betweenness
is it a good thing to findtwo empty pages between the day before yesterday & yesterday when trying to make roomfor the blue opera afternoon of today a sunday like any sundayin may? Pierre Joris, In Betweenness I know in betweenn...
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Poetry
Like A White Stone
Like a white stone deep in a draw-well lying,As hard and clear, a memory lies in me.I cannot strive nor have I heart for striving:It is such pain and yet such ecstasy. Anna Akhmatova, Like A White Stone Striving as both pain and ecstasy. That make...
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About Katie
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.
