Richard A. Brait

[Richard A. Brait @rabrait]

@elonmuskADO No, it’s the other way around!

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@irinibus @LRB @marywellesley You two were fabulous, but doing something with Chaucer will be harder!

[Richard A. Brait @rabrait]

@irinibus @LRB @marywellesley Wow, terrific Irina. I did the LRB book box with you and Mary last year. I thought it might be “generative” for me. And it was - the last half of my latest poetry collection is titled “Battles with Monsters, Beowulf in Labrador.” My next hope is Chaucer - witness my Chaucer pile

[Richard A. Brait @rabrait]

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[Richard A. Brait @rabrait]

A terrific offsite meeting for the Siemens Canada Legal and Compliance team in Toronto! We considered the topics of ESG, Distribution Networks, and the commercial and risk aspects of Digitalization. And we got to know each other in some great restaurants on Queen and Ossington …

[Bennington MFA @BennMFA_Writing]

“And so Hedda in her own way,
showed us that she had a killer inside her.”

@rabrait (MFA ‘22) won the 2021 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition for his seven-poem suite "Ibsen in the Movies." @ExileSocial

https://t.co/g6j7FYX2KW

[Richard A. Brait @rabrait]

The Bennington Poets - This term’s poetry graduates from the Bennington College MFA program!
(I to r : Susan Dines, Richard Brait, Krysia Wazny McClain, Michael Martinec, Claressinka Anderson and Nico Amador).
#BenningtonMFA

[Bennington MFA @BennMFA_Writing]

Just get yourself to morning - / that troll turned to stone by the sun's hard glow. /

Don't let the dreams that stalk you / in the night survive the dawning.
–
MFA student @rabrait published his poem "The Night Troll at the Window" @dalhousiereview.

https://t.co/sOESPo7ggf

[Richard A. Brait @rabrait]

Thanks to The Dalhousie Review for publishing my poem “The Night Troll at the Window” in the Autumn 2021 issue.

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Today, March 5, is the day Akhmatova died. If you didn't read her Requiem, please do. These days it is particularly meaningful. Meaningful, too, that she was born in Odessa, where explosions are heard this very moment.

[Richard A. Brait @rabrait]

“One fight, in one place…” We really are at a turning point for our world. Europe, the Free World, needs to be all in on this one.

[Chrystia Freeland @cafreeland]

The people of Ukraine are today showing the incredible strength of a free people fighting for their democracy.

This is one of those times, and one of those places, where freedom confronts tyranny.

We are determined that freedom will triumph, and it will.

[Bennington MFA @BennMFA_Writing]

"It was a cheap fly -
synthetic pink and
a bright white wing..."

Richard A. Brait ( MFA student ) had two poems published in the Winter 2022 issue of @thenewquarterly: The African Queen and Black Paintings.

https://t.co/9HEUhqxyGY

[Richard A. Brait @rabrait]

A great mail day! The Winter 2022 issue of The New Quarterly arrived today - it features two of my Newfoundland Poems: The African Queen and Black Paintings.

[Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop @blackwelloxford]

Today, 3 January is the birthdate of J. R. R. Tolkien, who was born in 1892.

Blackwell's was Tolkien's first publisher with 'Goblin Feet' accepted in the annual Oxford Poetry for the year 1915.

With the hindsight of age, it was not a favourite piece of his own work.

[Richard A. Brait @rabrait]

Thanks to Joan Harcourt, Literary Editor at The Queen’s Quarterly, for taking 20 pages of my poetry in one fell swoop!

“Newfoundland Legal Trilogy” will appear in the Summer 2022 issue, and the first 4 poems of my Margaret and Sam manuscript in Winter 2022.

[Richard A. Brait @rabrait]

@Devin_Heroux Congratulations Damian. The world’s greatest athlete is now a Canadian !

[Mike Crawley @MikeCrawleyCBC]

@CBCNews "Demanding that health-care workers get a needle is not cruel and unusual punishment, it’s a health and safety requirement." writes @reggcohn in today's @TorontoStar. #COVID19Ontario
https://t.co/wj8yCSgBfE

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

"Honestly, in my 12 years as president, it was one of the easiest decisions."

@SenecaCollege president David Agnew on why his school became the first post-secondary institution in Canada to require vaccinations as a condition of coming on campus. #Opinion https://t.co/lKJ6fXLhm4