Terry Ann Carter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and moved to Canada in 1965. After earning degrees in English and Music, and a graduate degree in Education, she taught language arts from kindergarden to college. Her first book of poems (Waiting for Julia, Third Eye Press, 1999) chronicled the Chernobyl disaster. Her second collection, Transplanted, was published by Borealis Press, 2006. An international award winning haikuist, Carter partcipated in the Basho Festival, Ueno, Japan, and served Haiku Canada as Vice President for four years. A collection of small poems, such green, (pendas poets, 2005) and road trip: more latte than turquoise from ottawa to santa fe,(counting coup press new mexico) were published in limited hand made editions and exhibited in International Book Art Fairs. In the summer of 2005, Carter was an instructor at the Teachers' Training Program, Dongzhou International Education Exchange Center, Haimen City, China. Carter was the Random Acts of Poetry poet for Ottawa 2005/2006/2007.
Awards
Second place - Valley Writer's Guild Poetry Contest 1997.
HM - The Betty Drevniok Award 1998.
Finalist - Sandburg/Livesay Award 1998.
Finalist - Acorn Rukeyser Chapbook Award 1998.
HM - The Ray Burrell Award for Poetry 1999.
First place - Montreal International Haiku Festival 2001.
HM - Betty Drevniok Award - 2001.
First place - Canadian Authors Association ( haiku) 2002.
HM - National League of American Pen Women 2002.
First place - "people's choice" R.H. Blyth Award (haiku) Japan, 2002.
First Place - Basho Festival Contest, Japan, 2002.
First Place The Hawaii Education Association Haiku Contest 2003.
First place Toronto Vegetarian Association Tofu Haiku Contest 2006.
HM Haiku International Association (Japan) 2007.
First Place (haiku) Vancouver International Cherry Blossom Festival 2007.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Award (haiku) 2008
Selected Publications
Anapanasati. chapbook (Cranberry Tree Press, 1997)
Waiting for Julia (Third Eye Press, 1999)
Transplanted (Borealis Press,
2006)
ISBN: 0-88887-311-5
Carpe Diem:Anthologie Canadienne Du Haiku/Canadian Anthology of
Haiku (Eng. editor)
(Les Editions David/ Borealis Press,
2008)
ISBN: 978 -0-88887 - 356 - 9
Selected Anthologies
Poetry Express, (Nelson, Canada, 1993)
The Free Verse Anthology (Ottawa, 1993)
Spring Fever (W)rites of Spring (League of Canadian Poets, 1997)
Waiting For You To Speak (Un Mon America, 1999)
No Choice But to Trust (Un Mon America, 2000)
Body Language: A Head to Toe Anthology (Black Moss Press,
2002)
ISBN: 0 - 88753 - 382 - 5
Soundings (BuchekBooks,
2005)
ISBN: 1 - 984643 - 26 - 2
Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam Era (Seraphim Editions,
2008)
ISBN: 978 - 0 - 9808879 - 1 - 4
Books in Print
Carter, Terry Ann
Waiting for Julia (Third Eye Press, 1999)
Transplanted (Borealis Press,
2006)
ISBN: 0-88887-311-5, $16.95
Terry Ann Carter
63 Stinson Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario
(613) 820-7734
E-mail: tacarter@rogers.com
Website: www.crimsonbamboo.com
Link: www.haikucanada.org
Link: www.haikunorthamerica.org
Link: www.haikusocietyofamerica.org
phone: (613) 820-7734
As a retired classroom teacher, Terry Ann Carter is in the unique position of understanding curriculum (and lack thereof). She is available for presentations on a wide range of poetic topics: The Beat Poets (senior classes) Langston Hughes and an introduction to the Blues, "The People's Poetry" of Dorothy Livesay and Milton Acorn or an introduction to Japanese literary form: haiku, senryu, tanka, renga. Terry Ann will give readings of her own work plus creative writing workshops. She prefers to meet with the host teacher to arrange lessons/workshops, or whatever is desirable, and leaves lesson ideas and poem cards for the host school.Grade Levels: all
Fees: standard