Championing collective excellence.
“Even in times that you’d think would call for focused practicality, poetry is an answer to the questions of the day”- MRU Professor, Richard Harrison, reflects on the current situation.
The following poem was provided to the MRFA, at our request, and is posted here with Richard’s permission.
This is the time
that will be That Time,
and when it is over,
as all things are that turn
into things that used to be,
we will have been tried,
and at the end of every text
and email, every Zoom,
Google Hang Out, video,
podcast, virtual meeting room,
phone call, every Blackboard
post and uploaded file written
the night before publication,
at the end of everything
kept close at a distance
in order to stay in touch,
for those who reached out to us
for guidance and to learn,
we were found, giving.
Richard Harrison
Professor
Mount Royal University
Department of English, Languages, and Cultures