Ann Elizabeth Carson

Ann Elizabeth Carson, born 19 March 1929 in Toronto, Canada,is a poet, author, artist, sculptor, feminist, and psychotherapist.

Life
Carson was born in Toronto, Ontario. Her love of words and writing began in elementary school. She published sporadically in high school, during her undergraduate years at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and while raising four children.

Carson writes, paints, and sculpts in Toronto and Manitoulin Island. She especially enjoys reading from her work at multi-media events with other poets, writers, and artists, and with dancers and musicians. Carson also leads workshops in how the arts create a new perspective in the ways we see ourselves and our world.

Carson belongs to the League of Canadian Poets, Old Town ARTbeat, the Ontario Poetry Society, the Toronto Heliconian Club,and the Tower Poetry Society. She is a Mother of 4 and grandmother of 6. She loves music, theatre, gardening, gallery hopping, and bookstore browsing with family and friends.

Publications

 * My Grandmother’s Hair, a tale about how our family stories make our memories and shape our lives (Edgar Kent, 2007)
 * Shadows Light, a collection of poetry and sculptures (Longboat Alliance, 2005)
 * The Risks of Remembrance, new poems (Words Indeed, 2010)

Selections and reviews of Carson’s books have appeared in publications, including the Sudbury Star (2005/10), Canadian Women Studies/les cahiers de la femme (2008/09, 2011), Herizons magazine (2008/9), p o e t r y’z o w n (2009/10, 2011), Celebrating Poets over 70, an anthology published by McMaster University Centre for Gerontological Studies and the Tower Poetry Society (2010),Island Mists, an anthology of the Poetry Institute (2010), Manitoulin Cross-pollination Two, exhibit catalogue of writers and artists (2010), Monhegan Memo #6 (2010), OWN Quarterly (December 2010) and Exile Quarterly (September 2010).

Recognition
Carson was selected as one of Toronto’s Mille Femmes at the 2008 Luminato Festival, which paid tribute to women who have made a contribution to the arts.