March 20, 2014

Terry Ann Carter is the author of five collections of lyrical poetry including A Crazy Man Thinks He’s Ernest in Paris (shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman Award) and Day Moon Rising (shortlisted for the Acorn Plantos People’s Poetry Prize), both from Black Moss Press. Four haiku chapbooks include A Monk’s Fine Robes: Haiku from Cambodia (Leaf Press) and Now You Know (King’s Road Press). She has studied poetry at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, is the current president of Haiku Canada, and lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Please visit her website.

Carole MacRury, of Point Roberts, Washington, is an active member of the arts community on both sides of the border. Her haiku and tanka are widely published and translated in both national and international literary journals and anthologies. Her first book, In the Company of Crows, was released by Black Cat Press in 2008. Her collection The Tang of Nasturtiums won the Snapshot Press e-chapbook contest in 2012. Carole is a 2012 Sue Boynton Poetry Walk award winner, and her longer verse has appeared in Poets Gone Wild, Stirring, Red River Review, and Green Tricycle. Her poems reflect the human experience through vivid imagery.