May 19 – 21, 2024

Spring launch of In the Spaces Between Bonsai at the Haiku Canada Weekend.
Acadia University
Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Review of First I Fold the Mountain reviewed by Mary Ann Moore; A Poet's Nanaimo. Read the full review here.

June 30, 2022

Spring launch of Blue Moon: The Ono no Komachi Poems with Terry Ann Carter & Heather MacDonald.
Online
4:00 pm
For more details see here.

April 6, 2022

Spring launch for First I Fold the Mountain.

Beginnings: A Night of Poetry featuring Terry Ann Carter and Christopher Lawrence Menard.
KordaZone Theatre, 2520 Seminole Street
Windsor, Ontario
8:00 - 10:00 pm

Student collages from University of Windsor’s 2022 Publishing and Editing Practicums, taught by Marty Gervais. The pieces shown here are inspired by the poems “Rain”, “When My Wife Reads Aloud", “For My Husband, For Christo”, “In Honour of My Trip to Paris”, “When I Write Haiku”, “Thimble Book for Hazel Hall”, "On a Line from David Sedaris", and “How to Cut a Mango (from the Book of Bombs)” from the collection First I Fold the Mountain.

Summer, 2021

Terry Ann has designed unique artist bowls available for a minimum donation of $25 to either the Victoria Food Bank or the Victoria Cool Aid Society. Available exclusively at The Papery for a limited time! For more details stop by The Papery
734 Fort Street, Victoria
Monday-Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:30 pm

October 15 – 17, 2021

Haiku North America Virtual Conference
A a biennial conference in celebration of haiku poetry offering stimulating days of papers, panels, workshops, readings, performances, and more with fellow poets, translators, scholars, editors, and publishers. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Online
For more details see here 

March 17

What’s a Book Anyway? A Workshop on Artist’s Books, Small Book Construction, and Their Link to Poetry
Kraken Theatre, 4301 Bedwell Harbour Road
Hope Bay, Pender Island, BC
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
$25.00

March 16

Discovering the Sensuous in Japanese Literary Form Poetry: A Deeper Dive into Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, Haibun
Kraken Theatre, 4301 Bedwell Harbour Road
Hope Bay, Pender Island, BC
9:30 am - 3:00 pm
$35.00

November 4

An Exhibition of Book Arts
Gage Gallery Arts Collective, 2031 Oak Bay Avenue
Victoria, BC

September 27 | Thursday

The Red Dragonflies Haiku Group regional gathering. Facilitation by Vanessa Proctor
Pymble, Australia

September 23 | Sunday

Limestone Tanka Poets regional gathering. Reading from a new tanka collection Blue Moon: the Ono no Komachi Poems. Facilitation by Kathy Kituai.
Canberra, Australia

September 21 | Friday

Haiku @ The Oaks regional gathering. Facilitation by Jan Dobbs.
The Oaks, Canberra, Australia
1:30 pm

September 19 | Wednesday

Terry Ann will present on lyric and haiku poetry from Day Moon Rising and her work with the Tabitha Foundation, Cambodia. Facilitation by Amelia Fielden.
University of the Third Age
Canberra, Australia
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

September 16 | Sunday

Red Kelpie Haiku Group regional gathering
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Facilitation by Lorin Ford.
Melbourne, Australia

September 9 | Sunday

Yarra Haiku Poets regional gathering. Facilitation by Jennifer Sutherland.
Warburton, Australia

September 1

Living in the Sensuous World: A Haiku Workshop, with Terry Ann Carter
As part of the Oregon Haiku Society and the Portland Haiku Group  2018 Conference and Meeting.
Learning from classical Japanese masters and contemporary poets, Terry Ann Carter will lead a haiku writing workshop. Beginning with the basic elements of North American English haiku, then moving to haiku with a theme of love, this workshop will appeal to beginners as well as more advanced poets. Techniques, style, and editing skills will be covered in the morning workshop. After lunch, participants will make a “Book of Hearts” for favourite haiku.
Newport Visual Arts Center,  777 NW Beach Drive
Newport, Oregon, USA
2:15 pm- 3:30pm

July 17 – 28

Summertime...and the livin' is easy
Works by Terry Ann Carter, Jane Michiel, Frances Beckow
Gage Gallery Arts Collective, 2031 Oak Bay Avenue
Victoria, BC

June 9

The Magic of Miniature: Haibun & Small Book Making
Terry Ann will teach from her texts On the Road to Naropa: My Love Affair with Jack Kerouac (Inkling Press) and TOKAIDO (Red Moon Press). After a nourishing lunch sources from local ingredients participants will create a small hand-made grimoire, Terry Ann will bring many examples of small books for inspiration, and lead you through the book-making process. 
9780 Canoe Lake Road
Township of South Frontenac, Ontario
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
More information here.

May 22

An Evening of Poetry, Art & Great Canadian Beer
Join Terry Ann Carter and Arleen Paré for readings from both of their new collections: Carter's Tokaido (Red Moon Press), and Paré’s The Girls with Stone Faces (Brick Books).
Vimy Brewing Company, 1-145 Loretta Avenue North
Ottawa, Ontario
7:30 pm

May 14

Less is More: A Love Haiku Workshop
Learning from classical Japanese masters and contemporary poets, Terry Ann Carter will lead a writing workshop on love haiku. Beginning with the basic elements of North American English haiku, then moving to haiku with a theme of love, this workshop will appeal to beginners as well as more advanced poets. Techniques, style, and editing skills will be covered in the morning workshop. After lunch, participants will make a “Book of Hearts” for favourite haiku.  
cSpace King Edward, 460 - 1721, 29th Ave SW
Calgary, Alberta
10:00 am - 2:30 pm

April 18

Poetry Reading Featuring Terry Ann Carter, Rhonda Ganz and Ted Blodgett
Massy Books, 229 East Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC
7:30 - 9:30 pm
More details here.

December 10

Ekstasis Editions and the Martin Batchelor Gallery Present 35th Anniversary Book Launch
Martin Batchelor Gallery, 712 Cormorant Street
Victoria BC
4:00 pm
Terry Ann CArter, Stephen Bett, Stanley Evans, Andrea Raine, Stephen Roxborough, Ken Cathers, Ellen Arrand, Kegan Doyle

December 2

SpeakEasy 20: Canada in Five Voices
Recent work by poets Terry Ann Carter, Susan Alexander, Richard Osler, Barbara Pelman, Linda Thompson.
Mount Baker Theatre Encore Room
Bellingham WA
7:00 pm

November 12

An Afternoon of Poetry & Art
Join Terry Ann Carter and Arleen Paré for readings from both of their new collections: Carter's Tokaido (Red Moon Press), and Paré’s The Girls with Stone Faces (Brick Books).
Martin Batchelor Gallery, 712 Cormorant Street
Victoria BC
1:00 -3:30 pm

September 22

An Evening of Japanese Poetic Forms: From the Tokaido Road to the World Stage
Part of the Word Vancouver Festival. at the Haiku North America Conference. Join poets Terry Ann Carter, Rachel Enomoto, and Kozue Uzawa in a discussion of the Japanese poetic forms: haiku, tanka, and haibun. Terry Ann Carter will read from her new book, Tokaido (Red Moon Press), which uses the poetic form haibun to traverse the Tokaido, the ancient pilgrimage between Kyoto and Tokyo, its fifty-three stations, and artist Hiroshige’s eponymous woodblock prints.
Historic Joy Kogawa House, 1450 W 64th Ave
Vancouver, BC
7:30 pm

September 13

Launch of Tokaido
Part of the Kaleidoscope Reading Series at the Haiku North America Conference. With a reading by Penny Harter.
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
7:00 pm

July 2

Canada Day Weekend: Book Making Workshop
Join poet and paper artist Terry Ann Carter for a book making workshop to create small books suitable for sheltering haiku or other short poems. Come make a contemporary version of a palm leaf book, a tag book, and a four-fold book, plus demonstrations for a few other “structures”. All materials provided. 
Historic Joy Kogawa House, 1450 W 64th Ave
Vancouver, BC
1:30 - 3:30 pm

May 21

Erotic Haiku Book Launch
Instructional Centre Room 206, University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus
Mississauga, Ontario
10:00 - 11:00 am

Deep Breath Book Launch
Instructional Centre Room 216, University of Toronto Mississauga Campus
Mississauga, Ontario
11:00 am

April 6

A Pavilion of Blossoms: Poets Respond to Spring
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss Street
Victoria, BC
7:00 pm

April 2

A Haiku and Poetry Celebration
Silk Road Tea, 1624 Government Street
Victoria, BC
4:45 - 6:00 pm

February 4

Haiku: Learning to Taste the Mountain: A Master Class
University of Victoria,
Victoria, BC
1:00 - 3:00 pm

December  9

Launch of Cartography of Sorrows
Planet Earth Poetry
Hillside Tea and Coffee, 1633 Hillside Ave
Victoria, BC
7:30 pm

December 4

Book Making for Poets workshop
Sponsored by Planet Earth Poetry

November 11

Launch of In Fine Form
Hillside Tea and Coffee, 1633 Hillside Ave
Victoria, BC
7:30 pm
Details here.

October  11

Haiku workshop
Warmland Calligraphers of the Cowichan Valley
Duncan, BC

October 1

Culture Days
Poetry reading
Greater Victoria Public Library
Victoria, BC

September 1 – October 1

Sidney-by-the-Sea Book Arts Exhibition
Sidney, BC

August 14

Author Author (Writers’ Festival)
Esquimalt, BC

June 25

Launch of A Cartography of Sorrows (Jack Pine Press)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

June 17

Launch of Women and Multimedia editor Penn Kemp. The anthology will include my essay “Poetry and the Artist’s Book"
The Feminist Caucus Archive Series for the League of Canadian Poets
Harbourfront Centre
Toronto, Ontario
7:00 pm

May 24

Whitehorse School Board
Presentation on haiku 

May 20

Haiku Canada Conference 2016
Presentation on Chiyo-ni (with Marco Fraticelli)
Town Hall in the Gold Rush Inn
Whitehorse, Yukon
8:00 pm

April 20

Poetry reading for Earth Week
Confluence of Beings Exhibition
Cadboro United Church
Victoria, BC
7:00 pm

April 9  

Using Haiku in Wind Chimes
Sakura Days: Japan Fair
VanDusen Botanical Garden
Vancouver, BC

March 30

Haiku and  Haibun & Small Book Making: An All-day Workshop
Nanoose Place, 2925 Northwest Bay Road
Nanaimo District, BC
9:00 am - 12 pm & 1:00 - 3:00 pm

March 20

Poetry reading
Versefest, Ottawa Poetry Festival
Ottawa, Ontario
3:00 – 4:00

March 7

Presentation on haiku: “English Haiku in North America and Its Connection to Spirituality”
Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (UVic)
Victoria, BC
11:00 – 11:45

January 25  

Small Book Making Workshop
Royal Colwood Golf Course
Colwood, BC

November 25   

Poetry & Book Making Workshop
Planet Earth Poetry
Victoria, BC
9:30 am  - 3:30 pm

October 23   

Poetry reading
Planet Earth Poetry
Hillside Tea and Coffee, 1633 Hillside Ave
Victoria, BC
8:00 pm

October 15

Performance with Montreal jazz musician Marco Fraticelli “A Woman’s Desire: The Lost Letters of Chiyo-ni”
Haiku North America Conference
Union College, 807 Union Street
Schenectady, New York, USA

October 11

Haiku presentation and book making workshop
KaDo Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario

October 2

Haiku presentation
Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival
North Saanich Middle School, 10400 McDonal Park Road
North Saanich, BC

August 9

Featured reader at the Hazlewood Writers’ Festival
Hazlewood Herb Farm, 13576 Adshead Road
Ladysmith, BC
1:00 – 4:00 pm

August 2

Host of Haiku Arbutus meeting
Coast Collective Arts Centre, 3221 Harebell Avenue
Victoria, BC
1:00 – 4:00 pm

July 9

Book making workshop
The Painted Turtle
Nanaimo, BC
10:00 am – 12:00 pm

July 8

Poetry chapbook launch, Honeymoon Bay Retreat.
The Nanaimo Museum, 100 Museum Way
Nanaimo, BC
7:00 – 9:00 pm

May 22

Featured reader with Gabriel Rosenstock
Silk Road Tea, 1624 Government Street
Victoria, BC
8:00 pm

May 15th – 18

Haiku Canada Conference
New Horizons Activity Centre
James Bay, Victoria, BC

April 24        

Workshop on Japanese haiku poet Chiyo-ni
Japanese Gardens, Royal Roads University, 2005 Sooke Road
Victoria, BC
1:00 – 4:00 pm

April 4

April is Poetry Month: discussion on the “palette of poetry” and a paper wind chime making workshop
Greater Victoria Public Library, 735 Broughton Street
Victoria, BC