Kathleen (Kate) Braid (born March 19, 1947) is a

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poet. Born in

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, she was raised in

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, and graduated from

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. Her poems and personal essays have been widely printed and anthologized. She lives in

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Bibliography

;Poetry * ''Covering Rough Ground'' (Polestar, 1991) * ''To This Cedar Fountain'' (Polestar, 1995) * ''Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's Journey with Emily Carr'' (Polestar, 1998) * ''In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry'' (Polestar, 2005; Ed., wit
Sandy Shreve
* ''A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems'' (Caitlin, 2008) * ''Turning Left to the Ladies'' (Palimpsest, 2009) ;Poetry Chapbooks * ''Small Songs'' (Hawthorne Society, 1994) * ''A Woman's Fingerprint'' (Other Tongue Press, 1997) ;Non-fiction * ''Red Bait! Struggle of a Mine Mill Local'' with Al King (Kingbird, 1998) * ''Emily Carr: Rebel Artist'' (2000) * ''The Fish Come In Dancing: Stories from the West-Coast Fishery'' (Ed., Strawberry Hill, 2002)

References

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