Terry Ann Carter is a haiku and tanka poet
who travels the world with a small spiralled bound notebook, happy
to be alive, here, now!
She was privileged to participate in an international
renku (linked haiku) at the Basho Festival in Ueno, Japan, and at
the Tenri Cultural Center in New York City. She has organized four
Haiku Canada conferences at Carleton University, Ottawa, and chaired
the Haiku North America committee for a five-day conference at the
Library and Archives, Canada, in Ottawa.
Terry Ann won first prize (for best Canadian poem)
in the Vancouver International Cherry Blossom Festival (2007) and
has given haiku and small book making workshops across Canada, the
U.S., Singapore, China, France. In 2010 she won the Origami Crane
Award for Best Poem of the Year sponsored by the Tree Reading Series
in Ottawa. The “best poem” included six haiku from this
collection. Terry Ann is chair of the Tabitha Foundation (Canada)
which supports the work of Tabitha Cambodia.
New publications include Lighting the Global
Lantern: A Guide To Writing Haiku and Related Literary Forms, Wintergreen
Studios Press, and Now You Know I Can Change My Mind (Hexagram
Series), King’s Road Press.
