Kah Ta
'Fragrant Rice Field'

Terry Ann Carter

Ottawa,Ontario, Canada

tacarter@rogers.com

 

 

As a full member of the League of Canadian Poets, (funded by the Canadian Council for the Arts) the Canadian Authors Association, Haiku Canada, and the Haiku Society of America, I am available for creative writing workshops,classroom presentations, workshops for  teachers, poetry readings, book making workshops, talks on the practice of haiku. As Chair of the Tabitha Foundation (Canada) I am also available for presentations on the foundation's global outreach to the poor of Cambodia.

 

 

"Terry Ann Carter is a leading voice in contemporary haiku and arts education. As a poet she is a masterful and respected artist; as an educator she has inspired and guided thousands of young people to find their voices and create original poetry."

 

Annie Jilbert

Head of Middle School English

United World College of South East Asia, Singapore

 

 

Author of three books of poetry:

 

    A Crazy Man Thinks He's Ernest in Paris

    Black Moss Press, 2010
 
"...Carter's eloquect lyrics, poignant vignettes, and insightful inventories of codes, calculations, and treatments help us slip into the skin of the mentally ill - her brother, Lowell, Nash, Pound - as they clutch at reality, struggling to define and quantify. She imagines them, introspective, marginalized, wandering Luxembourg gardens or the halls of Mclena's Mental Hospital, boxing, inventing board games, checking out the Oscars..."  Canadian Bookseller
 
more information: www.blackmosspress.com
 
        Transplanted
        Borealis Press, 2006
 
"There's much to admire in Transplanted, not the least of which is a consistent sense of measure and intelligence at work"  Gary Geddes
 
 
        Waiting for Julia
       third eye press, 1999
 
"...a heartfelt book reminding us how the simple function of awareness can become a transformation" Barry Dempster, ARC
 
 
Artist collaborations:
 
Collage with Jennifer Gibbs (haiku text and multi-media)
2003
 
Hand made Japanese style accordion books (limited editions)
"such green" with pendas poets, London, Ont. 2005
 
hand made book with letterpress artist and book
maker, Suzanne Villmain (limited editions)
Road Trip: More Latte than Turquoise from Ottawa to Santa Fe, counting coup press, santa fe, new mexico, 2008
 
Workshops:
Book making workshop and poetry reading:
Vancouver Cherry Blossom International Festival, 2007
 
Book making and poetry reading:
Zen Festival, Montreal, 2008
 
Book making and poetry reading:
La Roche d'Hys Center for the Arts, Burgundy, France
2010
 
Future projects:
Lighting the Global Lantern: a Teacher's Guide to Writing Haiku and Related Literary Forms
Wintergreen Studios Press, summer 2011
 
A Monk's Fine Robes (Haiku from Cambodia)
Leaf Press, summer 2011
 
Hallelujah (haiku, senryu and tanka) with French translation by Mike Montreuil
Buschekbooks, 2012
 
 
After retiring from a career in arts education - kindergarten to college - my attention became (more) focussed on poetry. More details about that part of my life
http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/carter.htm . 

I was thrilled to be a part of Random Acts of Poetry (founded by Wendy Morton, in Victoria B.C.) for the city of Ottawa in 2005 - 2009 
www.abebooks.com/docs/randomactsofpoetry

In 2002 I co-founded (with Marianne Bluger) a local haiku group (KaDo Ottawa) here in Ottawa to meet seasonally. More about KaDo at
http://web.mac.com/crimsonbamboo/www.crimsonbamboo.ca/Haiku-Kado.html .

One of my prized possessions, and now within your viewing, was the gift of a photo-essay review of the Haiku Canada conference in 2007 by William J. Higginson. Sadly, Bill passed away in the autumn of 2008.
http://haikai.home.att.net/haiku/haikucanada07/index.html . 

Four Haiku Canada conferences were organized at Carleton University, Ottawa; more about Haiku Canada at
 www.haikucanada.org
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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For interviews and potographs from the Haiku North America conference in August 5th - 9th, 2009
please visit Pearl Pirie's blog at 
http://haiku09.wordpress.com

 



And if you feel inclined to leave a message, please do so by adding your comments to the Guest book below. I look forward to our exchange.
If you are interested in a class visit, please contact me at   tacarter@rogers.com. where we can discuss objectives, lesson plans, workshops, fees.

Thanks for stopping by. Terry Ann Carter
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The seal featuring the Japanese kanji for the closest sound to my last name, means fragrant rice field. The gift of a Japanese "chop" was presented to me by Bill Higginson, when we found ourselves walking down a busy Tokyo street, after the conclusion of the Basho Festival that had taken place in Ueno.  It was there that I met Bill and his wife, Penny Harter, who was soon to become a dear friend.  Bill was kind enough to choose the correct translation for my name; he spoke to the shop owner in Japanese, going up and down the rows of small plastic chops in their gold and black lacquered cases, until he found the correct one. When I returned to Ottawa, I took my treasure to East Wind (2940 Bank Street) where a fine Chinese artist carved the kanji into a beautiful jade chop. Knowing that my name closely resembles the "idea" of a fragrant rice field, has certainly inspired me. Planting and reaping rice is difficult; there is the challenge of water, mud, sun, and rain. It is back breaking work, and sometimes when I become too complacent, or whiney about something, I stop and think of the workers who gather this crop, their long challenging days. Rice nourishes millions of people all over the world; I like to think that poetry might do the same.


 

Terry Ann Carter

613 - 820 - 7734

tacarter@rogers.com