[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
My Life Closed Twice
If it is true, what they say, that poetry is written with the knowledge of/ and against death, that it is a beacon, a bulwark, that Love, I confess, I have been no poet. Cameron Awkward-Rich I looked up the word beacon and bulwark. I noticed that ...
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Poetry
from “Beyond Belief”
It’s where you are in your imaginationThat’s important, for the life of simply staying where you areIs a shadow’s life, that leaves you by yourself, alone and scared.Why can’t we just move on? The light up ahead is softAnd seems to beckon us,...
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Poetry
from Please Make Me Pretty, I Don’t Want to Die
So, I am part of this thing where fish learned to walk. Tawanda Mulalu I have been thinking about Kronos time since listening to the On Being program, Taking the long view of time and becoming "critical yeast." Kronos time is described on the podc...
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Poetry
(The Mothman Watches a TV Movie and Resolves to Steal the Declaration of Independence)
Does it have to be true, that everything we touch, we break a little? Robert Wood Lynn What if, as Leonard Cohen suggests, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in? I want to explode the idea of what it means to break. I believ...
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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.
