Poet and paper artist, Terry Ann Carter is the author of eight collections of long form poetry, two haiku guidebooks, and five haiku chapbooks; she has edited four haiku anthologies. As past president of Haiku Canada, founder of and facilitator for KaDo Ottawa (2001-2012) and Haiku Arbutus Victoria Study Group (2014-present), she has given hundreds of haiku and book arts workshops around the world. A Crazy Man Thinks He’s Ernest in Paris (Black Moss Press) was shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman Award; day moon rising was shortlisted for the Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Award and Tokaido (Red Moon Press, 2017) won a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award. As a community fellow (2017) at the University of Victoria's Centre of Study in Religion and Society (CSRS) she studied Buddhist influence on contemporary English haiku and gave several lectures on this topic. In 2019, she was a judge for the first International Haiku Contest for the city of Morioka, Japan. Haiku in Canada: History, Poetry, Memoir (Ekstasis Editions) and Moonflowers: Pioneering Women Haiku Poets in Canada (catkin press) were both published in 2020. Her latest editions include Blue Moon: the Ono no Komachi Poems, Jackpine Press, 2021; First I Fold the Mountain, Black Moss Press, 2022; and In the Spaces Between Bonsai, Aeolus House, 2024.
Photo Credit: Rhonda Ganz
Media
2022
June 30, 2022 | Jackpine Press launch of Blue Moon
January 2022 | In Conversation with Susan Purney Mark: Small Books and Haiku (video)
January 1, 2022| Interview with Jacob Seltzer, Haiku Poet Interviews
2020
November 24 | Mary Ann Moore, Review of Haiku in Canada
November 20 | Planet Earth Poetry, Poets Caravan: Terry Ann Carter (video)
November 1 | chaudiere books, Six Questions interview #44 : Terry Ann Carter
October 21 | EVENT Magazine, The Shadow Element: Rob Taylor Interviews Terry Ann Carter
2019
April 5 | Recovering Words, On the Tokaido with Terry Ann Carter – Three Haibun
2018
December 30 | Times Colonist, Solstice Poems: For the White Bird by Terry Ann Carter
2017
December 19 | League of Canadian Poets, On Haiku: Contest Judges Terry Ann Carter and Naomi Beth Wakan