[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
Amazed Mouth
The soul: a wide listening sky/ with thousands of candles: when// anything is sold, soul gets given/ in the cash: people waiting at a/ door, a ladder leaning on a roof,/ someone climbing down, the market/ square bright with understanding./ Listening ...
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Poetry
Let Them Not Say
Let them not say: they did nothing.From Jane Hirshfield's, "Let Them Not Say"...
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Poetry
After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
From now on, It’s all clear profit, every sky.From Robert Hass' "After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa"...
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Poetry
A Visit From St. Nicholas
by Clement Clark Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;The children were nest...
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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.
