WE ARE ALL JAPAN

Distribution of copies in Japan

2012-02-22T19:03:00.000-08:00

We are going to publish the We Are All Japan anthology pretty soon.
Our plan is to distribute a certain number of copies to the afflicted area or to a responsible agency to secure the distribution of the anthology to schools and libraries hardest hit. A copy should also go to the national library in Japan.

Do you happen to have any idea as to how we could accomplish this?
Is there anyone or any agency or ministry in Japan willing to do that for free?

As you all know, the project has been funded by donations and the work on the anthology has been done by volunteers.

Thank you for any advice or help!

2012-02-09T11:46:00.001-08:00

ARTWORKS ACCEPTED FOR THE ANTHOLOGY

Cover page: Sonja Smolec, Croatia

Robert D. Wilson, Philippines
haiga:
even buddha
in seconds

Stephen Mead, USA
underwater trilogy excerpt 2, 3, 5, 6

Zoe Savina, Greece
collages:
Tribute to Fukushima
Haiku

Alexis Rotella, USA
haiga:
Sendai shelter-
Year of the hare
Today even
To the Japanese people

Seren Fargo,USA
Mashroom gills
Baby Fern

Anisoara Iordache, Romania
4 untitled artworks

Beate Conrad, USA & Horst Ludwig, USA
haiga:
Walking slowly down

Terra Martin, Canada
moonflower
babytears

PROGRESS

2012-01-31T09:14:00.000-08:00

The WAAJ anthology is in the final stage of preparation for publication.
We want it to shine and be a representative poetry, prose and art gift for our brothers and sisters in Japan.
Thank you for your patience with us.

Robert D. Wilson and Saša Važić
Co-Editors

HAIKU AND TANKA ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

2012-01-31T09:09:00.000-08:00

Yasuko Kitamura, Japan
Smile in your heart

Louis Osofsky, USA
passing
recalling, for a time
in the weight
ahh-ness of
silent words

Eduard Tara, Romania
Crushed houses –
I would like

Ted van Zutphen, USA
plum blossom gone ...
super moon
spring breeze -

Robert D. Wilson, Philippines
plastic spring . . .
your breath, wind
samurai . . .

Alenka Zorman, Slovenia
just sprouted

Angelo Ancheta, Philippines
along time's hand 
when energy transforms ...

Johnny Baranski, USA
washed ashore
drifting on the wind

Svetlana Marisova, New Zealand
日本
unseen,
Rūaumoko -

Massih Talebian, Iran
cherry blossoms
you two
warrior's dream

Zoe Savina, Greece
"as if in the embrace. “
earthquake deep in spring

Mariko Kitakubo, Japan
an accident

Richard Gilbert, Japan
commingled

Keith A. Simmonds, Trinidad & Tobago
butterflies

Colin Shaddick, Great Britain
bird bath –

Florentina Loredana Dalian, Romania
evening time
From now on

Ruth Yarrow, USA
tonight . . .

Sonam Chhoki, Kingdom of Bhutan
rising
tiny bubbles

Tomislav Maretić, Croatia
a seagull
candles on the beach

Maria Santomauro, USA
silence-

Gennady Nov, Russia
Tsunami - 
night of shocks

George O Hawkins, USA
robin's song

Donna Fleischer, USA
American kid
Fukushima
hototogisu!

Robin D Gill, USA
Blossom rafts

Angèle Lux, Canada
rising sun

Ivica Jembrih Cobovički, Croatia
before the dawn

Terra Martin, Canada
collecting

Patrick Mizelle, USA
one fine day the deck

Kathy Uyen Nguyen, USA
with my voice
smoky skies

Ellen Pratte, USA
milkweed -

Duško Matas, Croatia
a calm man

Alan Summers, UK
in-between season
Kōboku

Claire Everett, UK
clutching

Bruce Ross, USA
Geku

Verica Živković, Serbia
after the tsunami

Željko Funda, Croatia
collective burial

Branislav Brzaković, Serbia
Nuclear reactor

Jacob Patchett, (9 years old), New Zealand
Samurai swords

Don Baird, USA
wisteria blossoms
white masks ...

P K Padhy, India
sunset . . .

Tami Zizhou, Zimbabwe
Silence...

Paula Hayes, USA
Blue balloons
Nowhere night

Jovanka Božić, Serbia
a thousand

Malvina Mileta, Croatia
this painful moan . . .

Clelia Ifrim, Romania
in my hand

Branislav Brzaković, Serbia
blossoms

Tatjana Stefanović, Serbia
wind whistling
long line . . .

Vasile Moldovan, Romania
tsunami and

Saša Važić, Serbia
pansies
wednesday
stop the planet . . .
still . . .

Rajka Anđelić Maslovarić, Croatia
in a moment . . .
hundreds

Dragan J. Ristić, Serbia
afterwards . . .
suffering

Sheri E. Files, USA
remembering

Ljubomir Radovančević, Croatia
Japan . . .

Đurđa Vukelić-Rožić, Croatia
death march . . .

Dina Franin, Croatia
I loved the sea

Mariko Shimizu, Japan
an accident

Susan Diridoni, USA
gojira redux. . .

Vid Vukasovic, Serbia
calm sea

Rajna Begovic, Serbia
tsunami

Seren Fargo, USA
spring sea
forest shadows

Beate Conrad, USA
cry for help
memorial day

Mark E. Brager, USA
aftershock

Michael Henry Lee, USA
ground fog

CaroleAnn Lovin, USA
weeping...

Please note: The list will be amended if new haiku and tanka are accepted for inclusion in the anthology prior to its publication, which is due shortly.

2011-06-11T08:31:00.000-07:00

ANTHOLOGY "WE ARE ALL JAPAN"

Non-Japanese poetry

Please be advised that our editor for non-Japanese poetry has made his selection as follows:

Wang Ping, USA, from Shanghai, China: For Japan
Kathy Uyen Nguyen, Texas, USA: untitled (I watch the candle...)
Frank Joussen, Hueckelhoven, Germany: The Weather in Japan
Scharlie Meeuws, Faringdon, United Kingdom: Letter from Sendai
Sonja Smolec, Velika Gorica, Croatia: Sakura, 11 March 2011
Melissa Allen, Madison, Wisconsin, USA: Tremor
J.S. Watts, Cambridge, U.K.: untitled (Before the season of cherry blossom...)
Kauser Parveen, Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK: The Oarfish Omen
Piotr Stankiewicz, Warsaw, Poland: An Elegy
Ron Woollard, London, United Kingdom: Inspired by Hokusai's famous "Great Wave off Kanagawa" painting and the recent terrible Tsunami
Rich Follett, Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, USA: tsunami/origami
Michael Agius, Manchester, England: Awash
Jim Darwent, Liverpool, England: We were arguing
Bharat Shekhar, New Delhi, India: Earth, Unearth
Marilyn Francis, England.: Reasons not to get up in the morning
Christopher Reilley, Dedham, MA, USA: Tsunami
James Zealy, USA: Divine Wind
robert d. wilson, Philippines: Fat Cats

Congratulations to all of you!

2011-05-20T00:09:00.000-07:00

Please be advised that there is another option for making donations to the Anthology WE ARE ALL JAPAN fund for those of you who cannot use paypal.

You can either send a check or money order via, say, Western Union to the following address:

Rona Conti

48 Foster Road, Belmont, MA 02478

USA
Phone No: 617 484 8034

Rona Conti will transfer your donations to the paypal account we are already using.
You can also send cash at your own risk.

To donate via paypal, go to: http://theartofhaiku.com/

Robert D. Wilson and Sasa Vazic

ANTHOLOGY "WE ARE ALL JAPAN"

2011-05-17T06:13:00.000-07:00

By the deadline, May 15, 2011, we received:

- haiku and tanka by 167 authors

- haibun by 8 authors

- non-Japanese poetry by 114 authors

- a great number of artwork and photography

Unfortunately, we have not received enough donations. We still need cca $500 to cover the publishing costs.

In case we receive this amount by the end of this month (May), we shall begin to work on the anthology.

Thank you to those who have contributed toward this aim. We encourage you to help us by donating any amount you can, so that we can make this gift of our soul to the people of Japan.

Robert D. Wilson and Saša Važić

2011-04-05T03:13:00.000-07:00

ANTHOLOGY WE ARE ALL JAPAN

ALL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE ANTHOLOGY PROGRESS WILL BE POSTED HERE.

We hope to establish a team of editors per each category: haiku, tanka, haibun, non-Japanese poetry, and artwork/photography.

The deadline for submission is May 15, 2011. After that, the team of editors will select among the works submitted. Due to the large number of submissions we have received so far, and those we expect to be submitted by the deadline, we won't be able to inform each author regarding acceptance of his/her submission, but only those whose work has been accepted.
We still need stories from Japan as well as more haibun.
We'd appreciate any amount of donation for the printing costs of the anthology and to the people of Japan.
The cost of a copy of the anthology will be posted here as soon as we gather all the information from the publisher.

Thank you for your support!

2011-04-03T12:19:00.000-07:00

2011-03-24T10:03:00.000-07:00

We have by now received a good number of poems and haibun. But, we expect more and more.

What we also need are accounts and stories from the Japanese people. Please help us collect them.

We are also looking for a good and reliable publisher who would understand that the anthology WE ARE ALL JAPAN is our gift to the people of Japan, and so would not ask a percentage of the profits, as all the profit will be sent to the Red Cross or the Salvation Army.

Thank you to all who have donated for the publishing costs of the WE ARE ALL JAPAN anthology.

Robert D. Wilson and Sasa Vazic

2011-03-18T22:00:00.000-07:00

ANTHOLOGY "WE ARE ALL JAPAN"

WE'D LIKE TO ASK OUR FRIENDS TO HELP US COLLECT STORIES FROM THE PEOPLE FROM JAPAN. As Wang Ping suggested "their healing needs to start now, through telling their stories, through spreading their stories, through knowing that people are listening to their stories."

Thank you for your support in these terrible moments in the world's history.

Send stories to: svtojapan@gmail.com.

PEOPLE FROM JAPAN, we encourage you to send your letters and stories to the same e-mail.

Bless you!

2011-03-18T08:44:00.000-07:00

WE ARE ALL JAPAN

Project administrators

Robert D. Wilson

Simply Haiku:

http://simplyhaiku.webs.com/robertdwilsonbiophoto.htm

Lousy Mirror:

http://lousymirror.blogspot.com/

Facebook:
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Sasa Vazic

Simply Haiku:

http://simplyhaiku.webs.com/sasavazicbiophoto.htm

Haiku Reality:

http://haikureality.webs.com/ohaikureality.htm

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/foamfish?ref=ts#!/profile.php?id=100000036566658

Treasurer

Colin Stewart Jones

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/colinstewartjones?sk=info

Haiku & Related Genres:

http://www.colinstewartjones.webs.com/

2011-03-16T23:42:00.000-07:00

LIST OF DONORS TO WE ARE ALL JAPAN

Thank you to:

Gean Tree Press

Ted van Zutphen, USA

Susan Diridoni, USA

Maria Santomauro, USA

Pris Campbell, USA

Dietmar Tauchner, AU
With Words, UK

Celine Spengeman, IR

TMM inc, CAN

The Journal/Original Plus

Louis Osofsky, USA

Jessica Bell, Greece

Kathleen Creighton, USA

William P Kenney, USA

Adelaide Shaw, USA

Daphne Ashling Purpus, USA

Kathy Nguyen, USA

Martin Cohen, USA

Garry Eaton, CAN

Donna Fleischer, USA

Karen C Reynolds, USA

Rona Conti, USA withdrawn August 28, 2011

Andrew Pomphrey, UK

Al Fogel, USA

Don Baird, USA

Brooks Books, USA

Alpha W Calkins, USA

Yoko McClain, USA

Claire Everett, USA

Carole Ann Lovin, USA

Cartyweb.ie, Ireland

Jason Clements, Ireland

Melissa Allen, USA

Joe Kidd, USA

Stevie Strang, USA

Amelia Fielden, Australia

Suparna Ghosh, CAN

Richard Follett, USA

Sheela Giraudo, USA

Angelika Kolompar, Canada

Edward Tara, Romania

Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, Croatia

Haiku Association Three Rivers, Croatia

2011-03-16T10:23:00.000-07:00

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please use this link to donate (as "a gift" to avoid the loss in charges)...thank you

2011-03-16T05:52:00.000-07:00

WE ARE ALL JAPAN IS CREATED TO JOIN US IN THE SHARED WISH TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN, THE RADIATION, EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI VICTIMS.

POETS, ARTISTS, PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, JOIN US IN OUR LOVE AND HELP OUR SUFFERING BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
THIS IS OUR PRIMARY MISSION ON THE EARTH, NOW AND FOR EVER.

JAPAN HAS GIVEN SO MUCH TO US. THEIR SPIRIT, THEIR TRADITION, THEIR POETRY, ART... NOW OUR TIME HAS COME, UNDER THESE UNFORTUNATE, TERRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES FOR JAPAN BUT FOR THE WHOLE WORLD AS WELL,TO GIVE IT BACK.

IF YOU CAN DONATE ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY, A PAYPAL DONATION BUTTON IS HERE: theartofhaiku.com
(make your donations as "a gift" to avoid the loss in charges)

THE ANTHOLOGY WE ARE ALL JAPAN IS ONE OF OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AS POETS AND ARTISTS.

Robert D. Wilson and Sasa Vazic
administrators

2011-03-16T04:03:00.000-07:00

TO JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP WE ARE ALL JAPAN
GO TO: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_140981302634746&ap=1

2011-03-16T02:30:00.000-07:00

TO DONATE TO THE JAPANESE PEOPLE

PLEASE GO TO:

http://theartofhaiku.com/
(make your donations as "a gift" to avoid the loss in charges)

Robert D. Wilson and Sasa Vazic

2011-03-15T22:09:00.000-07:00

ANTHOLOGY "WE ARE ALL JAPAN"

Please submit any kind of poetry as well as haibun (stating your name, city and country) to svtojapan@gmail.com.

We accept only unpublished poetry written (in English) specifically about what is occurring in Japan. Your submissions should be heartfelt.

We also need a photo or artwork for the cover. Please send your original work to the same email.

Deadline: May 15, 2011.

Robert D. Wilson and Sasa Vazic

TO DONATE FOR THE PRINTING COSTS OF THE ANTHOLOGY, A GIFT TO THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN, GO TO: http://theartofhaiku.com/
(send your donations as "a gift" to avoid the loss in charges)

All proceeds above the cost of publishing will be donated to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross to help radiation, earthquake, and tsunami victims.
We would also like to send a copy to libraries in Japanese cities and towns that were hit the hardest.