Ann Elizabeth Beattie Carson (19 March 1929 – 16 December 2023) was a Canadian poet, author, artist, sculptor, feminist and psychotherapist.
She published sporadically in high school, during her undergraduate years at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and while raising four children.
She especially enjoyed reading from her work at multi-media events with other poets, writers, and artists, and with dancers and musicians.
[3] 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 No.
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.