William Stanley Braithwaite

Magazine publishing Braithwaite launched a periodical, Poetry Journal, in December 1912, but not long afterwards, handed off the project to others.

Book publishing In 1921, he established the B. J. Brimmer publishing company, which published poetry, non-fiction, and anthologies. Braithwaite's business partner and treasurer of the company was the writer and poet Winifred Virginia Jackson, A surviving letter from Lovecraft to Braithwaite, dated 1930, mentions Jackson and references previous correspondence between the two men.

Professorship and retirement In 1935, Braithwaite assumed a professorship of creative literature at the historically black Atlanta University. He retired from this position in 1945. In 1946, he and his family moved to Sugar Hill in Harlem, New York, where Braithwaite continued to write and publish poetry, essays and anthologies. He was often alienated from his colleagues at the university due to his lack of any formal education or degrees and what was seen as his "standoffish" nature.

Harlem Renaissance Braithwaite is recognized as having a significant role in publishing Harlem Renaissance poets for a wide audience through his anthologies, despite his own conservatism in discussing race in his own work. In 1927, the poet Countee Cullen dedicated the anthology Caroling Dusk, An Anthology of Negro Poets, to Braithwaite. The Citizen (Boston, 1915) Stratford Monthly: A Forum of Contemporary International Thought (1916) Poetry Review of America (1916–1917)