Feb 2, 2013, 1.30-4.30 p.m: We look forward to seeing you at the February 2 edition of Portobello Saturdays at 995 Bay St where the music, the words and the food are always good. I will read excerpts from two manuscripts: We All Become Stories, Make Yours a Good One, 12 stories that reframe aging […]

Dec 1, 1.30-4.30 p.m: Portobello Saturdays, 995 Bay St., 1.30-4.30p.m: I will be the guest poet with a 10 minute reading. Great food. Good music. Come for lunch.

November 16, 6:00p.m.-8:30pm Heliconian Hall. 35 Hazelton Ave. Book launch and photo exhibit of Centennial Portraits, where my photo and biography will also be appearing. Photography by Mary Perdue, design by Margaret Lam, who designed my website. I will read two poems from my forthcoming book Laundry Lines with Margaret Lam on the piano playing […]

November 11, 2.00-4.00 p.m: The Ulyssean Society, United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street, Toronto. Feature presenter with “Telling Our Stories,” readings from my forthcoming books We All Become Stories: Make Yours a Good One and Laundry Lines.

November 6, 7.00 p.m: The launch of Our Lakes Shall Set Us Free, published by Scrivener Press at Laurentian University’s Living with Lakes Research Centre, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury. My poem “Shore Reeds” won an honourable mention and will be read by one of the other anthologized poets after an introduction by anthology editor Roger […]

On Oct 30, 2012 at 7:30pm. I will be one of the many readers celebrating the Toronto Women’s Bookstore as it prepares to close after 39 years of supporting Canadian feminists and writers. For 39 years, the Toronto Women’s Bookstore has served the community. Victoria Moreno, the owner, has just announced that the store will […]

At the Gore Bay Museum on Saturday August 11, Ann will be doing a reading of poetry inspired by nature during the opening reception for an art show featuring Kathy Kaiser and Michel Guerin from 1 to 4 p.m. The two artists are presenting art featuring scenes from Lacloche-Killarney-Manitoulin.

July 22, 1.00-4.00 p.m. Gore Bay Museum. Ann will participate in readings with members of the Manitoulin Writer’s Circle’s from their Legacy of War of 1812 project. For more information call 705-282-2040 (museum) or 705-282-1714 (Writers’ Circle.)

On July 21, 2012 from 1.00pm-4.30pm. Blue Jay Creek Art Farm. Ann Elizabeth Carson, Boo Watson and Shoshona Mckay collaborate in a multi-media event as part of the annual Manitoulin Island Art Tour (July 20-22). Listen to, hear and see spoken word, organ music and embellished photographs projected on the Art Farms’ Garage Gallery wall. For more […]

July 11, 11.00 a.m.to 3.00 p.m. Ann will be selling books by Manitoulin authors, including her own, at the Manitoulin Writer’s Circle table at the Kagawong Book and Bake Sale, a fund raiser for the Kagawong Library. For more information call the Writer’s Circle at 705-282-1714.