Terry Ann Carter

Terry Ann Carter
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Terry Ann Carter is the Ottawa co-ordinator for Learning Through The Arts. Her first book Waiting for Julia was published by Third Eye Press, London, Ont., 1999. An accomplished haiku poet, Carter has won several international awards and participated in the Basho Festival, Ueno, Japan (2004). She presented papers on the life of Chiyo-ni (17th Century Woman Haiku Master) at conferences in Kingston and Montreal and participated in the Montreal Zen Festival (McGill University) where she gave haiku readings and small book workshops. Her first place haiku in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (2007) will soon be carved into stone at the Burrard Street Sky Station in downtown Vancouver. A collection of haiku such green was published by Pendas Poets, London, Ont, in a Japanese accordion style hand made book (2005); her second book of lyrical poems, Transplanted, was published by Borealis Press (2006). Readings from this collection were presented at medical conferences at Queens University and King’s College, Waterloo. Carter serves the League of Canadian Poets as Education Chair and Haiku Canada as Vice President. Current projects include a collection of tanka about teaching experiences in China, and workshops involving photography and poetry. This is her third year as Random Acts poet for Ottawa.