Yanty's Butterfly - An Anthology of haiku dedicated to Yanty Tjiam, and her family, and proceeds to Hunger Project and ActionAid

Book Cover Art for Yanty's Butterfly © 2016 by Momolu Freeman 

Yanty’s Butterfly Haiku Nook: An Anthology 

Edited by: Jacob Salzer and the Nook Editorial Staff

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Yanty's Butterfly is an international haiku anthology dedicated to Yanty Tjiam (1981-2015), and her family. Yanty was a haiku poet who passed away in 2015. She was a beloved member of our Haiku Nook community on Google+. 

In honor of Yanty, 20 poets from Canada, the U.K., Germany, Persia/Iran, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, South Africa, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the U.S. have come together to create this anthology. In the spirit of Yanty, and global connectedness, Yanty's Butterfly embodies a transformative power all its own. 

This anthology consists of over 600 poems, spanning the variety of haiku forms: three-line haiku, two-line haiku, one-line haiku, four-line haiku, traditional haiku (5-7-5), concrete haiku, tanka, and haibun.

Featuring haiku by Yanty Tjiam, George Klacsanzky, Fei Zhan, and award-winning poet, Alan Summers, Yanty’s Butterfly is an essential addition to the haiku literature of the 21st century. 

In the editor's note, Jacob Salzer further describes the inherent value, and significance of this anthology: "As we lost a loved one, Yanty Tjiam, she went through a metamorphosis of her own, and in the process, she transformed us as well ...[Yanty's Butterfly] is a celebration of her life, and her haiku. It is also a celebration of our work in this genre, and the power of haiku to connect people, across countries, across boundaries, around the world." 

All proceeds from this book will be donated to Yanty’s family, and to two charity organizations: The Hunger Project, and ActionAid. 

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Some of my own haiku:

night of small colour
a part of the underworld
becomes one heron

Publication Credit: Modern Haiku Vol. 45.2  Summer 2014; Brass Bell Showcase: Alan Summers (July 2015)

http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/brass-bell-alan-summers.html

Anthology credit: Haiku 2015 (Modern Haiku Press, 2015); http://www.modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/index.html; Yanty's Butterfly  ISBN-10: 1329915410 ISBN-13: 978-1329915411

family home

my goodbye 

to the god

of its garden

Publication Credit: Yanty’s Butterfly 2016 Haiku Nook Anthology

a song beginning

the cardboard box in a child

carries its own light

Publication Credit: Yanty’s Butterfly 2016 Haiku Nook Anthology

an older heartbeat

the blur of a pine marten

on the glacier road

Publication Credit: Yanty’s Butterfly 2016 Haiku Nook Anthology

sleeping rough 

I make more room

for the Milky Way

Magazine Credit: Brass Bell Night Haiku (December 2015)

Anthology Credit: Yanty’s Butterfly (Haiku Nook Anthology)

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Call for poetry for a new short verse, haiku, tanka, short haibun anthology entitled C.2.2. : Poets may submit up to 5 haiku, tanka, short haibun, free-verse along with a pen name. The anthology will be subtitled short-verse, and we are looking for poems between 1 to 8 lines in length.

“Between loss of identity and loss of name, it's surprising, how when you are referred to by a number, you hurt.” Prisoner KM5451

Yet To Be Named Free Press  

is putting together an anthology entitled C.2.2. on the following themes:

•       loss of identity and/or name
•       mental health issues
•       social issues
•       physical health issues
•       unsentimental love

C.2.2. Editors: 

Brendan Slater and Alan Summers

Please scroll down and the rest of the post before submitting your work.

Submissions Email Address:Please submit your work to: subs@yettobenamedfreepress.org 

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Poets may submit up to 5 haiku, tanka, short haibun, free-verse along with a pen name.* 

The anthology will be subtitled under short-verse, and we are looking for poems between 1 to 8 lines in length.

Deadline:  30th November 2012.

Send us your darkest and/or most honest work to be considered for the anthology, alongside a pen name (pseudonym)   

We are looking for modern experimental short-verse only.

Submissions Email:
Please submit your work to: subs@yettobenamedfreepress.org

The anthology will contain around 200 poems and will be published in early 2013.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard.
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss

From the Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde published under the pen name/pseudonym of c.3.3. (1898).  It was only until the 7th printing that Wilde’s name was actually revealed.

There is a nod to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, where Bassanio asks: "Do all men kill the things they do not love?"

And this appears on Oscar Wilde's tomb;

And alien tears will fill for him,
… [a]nd outcasts always mourn.

*Only pen names will be included in the anthology but individual poems may be posted on personal blogs or other social media with the poet's real name.

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