[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
But Rooftops Did All the Work
As is the custom, two humans make a humanity Tongo Eisen-Martin What if our lives are but a series of rooftops — built over time, constructed and then reconstructed, and then reconstructed — connecting us to one another with floors and ceiling...
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Poetry
In the Company of Women
Make me laugh over coffee,/ make it a double, Make it frothy/ so it seethes in our delight. January Hill O'Neil There is something beautiful about the company of women. Gently understood, the company of women is frothy and delightful. It celebrate...
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Poetry
Dawn Revisited
Imagine you wake up/ with a second chance: The blue jay/ hawks his pretty wares/ and the oak still stands, spreading/ glorious shade. ... The whole sky is yours/ to write on, blown open/ to a blank page. Come on,/ shake a leg! Rita Dove What if li...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
How to be Happy in 101 Days
Adore stone. Learn to maneuver/ against the heat of things. Should you see butterflies gambol in the air, resist the urge to pinch their wings. Tishani Doshi What would my happiness list include? Write. Read. See. Notice. Experience. Thank. Br...
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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.
