• Age: 15 to 18
• Grade: 10 to 12

This guide for secondary school and college educators leads them through the history, forms, and beauty of Japanese poetry. Most of the work is on haiku, but there are also chapters on haibun, tanka, and haiga. Traditional and contemporary examples of all four forms appear throughout, along with ideas for classroom instruction and a wealth of print and web-based resources.

Terry Ann Carter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and moved to Canada in 1965. After earning degrees in English and Music, and a graduate degree in Education, she taught language arts from kindergarden to college. Her first book of poems (Waiting for Julia, Third Eye Press, 1999) chronicled the Chernobyl disaster. Her second collection, Transplanted, was published by Borealis Press, 2006. An international award winning haikuist, Carter partcipated in the Basho Festival, Ueno, Japan, and served Haiku Canada as Vice President for four years. A collection of small poems, such green, (pendas poets, 2005) and road trip: more latte than turquoise from ottawa to santa fe,(counting coup press new mexico) were published in limited hand made editions and exhibited in International Book Art Fairs. In the summer of 2005, Carter was an instructor at the Teachers' Training Program, Dongzhou International Education Exchange Center, Haimen City, China. Carter was the Random Acts of Poetry poet for Ottawa 2005/2006/2007.

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