[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
In the Year That’s Come and Gone
In the year that’s come and gone, love, his flying feather/ Stooping slowly, gave us heart, and bade us walk together./ In the year that’s coming on, though many a troth be broken,/ We at least will not forget aught that love hath spoken.In the y...
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Poetry
This Is Not a Small Voice
This is not a small loveyou hear this is a largelove, a passion for kissing learningon its face. ... This is a love initialed Black Genius.This is not a small voiceyo...
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Poetry
Estranged from Beauty – none can be-
Estranged from Beauty - none can be -/ For Beauty is Infinity -/ And power to be finite ceased/ Before identity was leased.Emily Dickinson I am grateful that we are all connected to Beauty in a deep down, molecular, big, cosmic way. I am grateful ...
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Poetry
Walkingstick Dragon
I want to dance here in this music,/ not in spirit where there is no time.// I circle the sun like shadow. My/ head becomes my feet. Covered with// existence, Pharaoh; annihilated, I/ am Moses. A pen between God-fingers,// a walkingstick dragon, my b...
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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.
