[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
Love – thou art high
Love - thou art high -/ I cannot climb thee -/ But, were it Two -/ Who knows but we -/ Taking turns - at the Chimborazo -/ Ducal - at last - stand up by thee-// Love - thou art deep - I cannot cross thee -/ But, were there Two/ Instead of One -/ Rowe...
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Poetry
I shall keep singing
I shall keep singing!/ Birds will pass me/ On their way to Yellower Climes -/ Each - with a Robin's expectation - I with my Redbreast -/ And my Rhymes -// Late - when I take my place in summer -/ But - I shall bring a fuller tune -/ Vespers - are swe...
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Poetry
Experience is the Angled Road
Experience is the Angled Road/ Preferred against the Mind/ By - Paradox -the Mind itself -/ Presuming it to lead// Quite Opposite - How Complicate/ The Discipline of Man -/ Compelling Him to Choose Himself/ His Preappointed Pain - Emily Dickinson ...
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Poetry
Exultation is the going
Exultation is the going/ Of an inland soul to sea,/ Past the houses - past the headlands -/ Into deep Eternity -// Bred as we, among the mountains,/ Can the sailor understand/ The divine intoxication/ Of the first league out from land.Emily Dickinson...
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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.
