A triple-launch at Tree: Terry Ann Carter’s Day Moon Rising (Black Moss, 2012), Catherine Owen‘s collection of 12 years of essays and reviews Catalysts: Confrontations with the Muse (Wolsak & Wynn, 2012) and Steve Kulash & other autopsies (AngelHouse Press, 2012)
Here with Jennifer and Rod Pederson.
Catherine read from her two newest books, and some of her travel haibun in light of the the occasion of Dead Poet Reading* on the first novelist, noblewoman, Murasaki Shikibu, and the presence of Mr. Toshi YoneharaJapanese Embassy.
*The Dead Poet Reading has found a new name. Now to honour the pillar poets, living or passed, the introduction piece will be called the Schrödinger’s Poet Reading.
Part of the reading’s objective, like much of Tree is to raise the dialogue on poetry, wider and deeper. Talks about poetry, workshops, retreats. This week’s Tree Seed Workshop invited people to consider their poetic direction thru guided contemplation and questions and yoga. The next session will continue to talk about body/spirit/creativity connections thru yoga under Robin Macdonald.
Tuesday’s Tree, between the double bill and another surprise, it was a full house. The surprise was a tribute to Terry Ann who is leaving us for Victoria this fall. Claudia joked it would be a roast, but people were kind.
Longtime friends and colleagues shared memories, thanks, her poems and poems that arose because of her influence or poems that seemed like her.
A few didn’t end up being able to make it and others stepped forward.
She’s been an organizer for haiku and Versefest, an encourager of talent. Planet Earth, Victoria gets a boost to their already great scene. They get Catherine Owen too, but only on the 25th this month, not for keeps.
Terry Ann set up a table of ikebana, and photos from Tabitha Foundation. Work with people in Cambodia post-Pol Pot was the impetus of some of the poems in her collection. Poems are dedicated to those who are seeking to shut down the childhood prostitution trade but also some light-hearted poems are in the collection.
The food angle’s here.