well, damn me . . . the last two posts here declare I'm going to try to overcome my addiction to self-publication,
and today I've just spent 3 hours putting together a new edition of my short poems . . .
I bought the new anthology, "Succinct : The Broadstone Anthology of Short Poems" — in which they include one by me,
not that they asked me for permission to reprint it, they got "permission" from BOA, from a book of mine BOA pubbed in 2000,
a book whose rights were reverted to me at least 5 or 6 years ago,
but like many anthologists they don't give a shit about contacting the poets whose work they want to include,
they contact the publishers or in my case some "agency" connected with BOA—
the 'Succinct' editors Jonathan Greene and Robert West (whoever the fuck they are)
used my poem without my permission and I resent it . . .
Compare their unconscionable arrogance with Gary Young and Christopher Buckley, editors
of "One for the Money : The Sentence as a Poetic Form," published by Lynx House Press in 2012,
who contacted me directly for permission to reprint 4 of my poems, and which I was happy to give,
I sent them permission to reprint my poems at no cost, no fee,
and I would have been happy to grant similar no-fee permission to Greene/West if they had deigned to ask me, but it seems they couldn't bother to go to the trouble of communicating with the poets whose works they co-opted —
a curse on them and on all poetry anthologists who refuse to honor the due rights of poets, the poet's innate right to have control over the distribution of his or her work.
Reprinting a living poet's work without their personal permission is an insult.
It's not like they couldn't google me and leave me a message on one of the many blogs I've had over the past 7 years . . .
and as I implied above, I would be happy to grant no-fee free permission to anyone who wanted to reprint my work in a venue I feel is appropriate, as long as they have the courtesy to ask me first.
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and today I've just spent 3 hours putting together a new edition of my short poems . . .
I bought the new anthology, "Succinct : The Broadstone Anthology of Short Poems" — in which they include one by me,
not that they asked me for permission to reprint it, they got "permission" from BOA, from a book of mine BOA pubbed in 2000,
a book whose rights were reverted to me at least 5 or 6 years ago,
but like many anthologists they don't give a shit about contacting the poets whose work they want to include,
they contact the publishers or in my case some "agency" connected with BOA—
the 'Succinct' editors Jonathan Greene and Robert West (whoever the fuck they are)
used my poem without my permission and I resent it . . .
Compare their unconscionable arrogance with Gary Young and Christopher Buckley, editors
of "One for the Money : The Sentence as a Poetic Form," published by Lynx House Press in 2012,
who contacted me directly for permission to reprint 4 of my poems, and which I was happy to give,
I sent them permission to reprint my poems at no cost, no fee,
and I would have been happy to grant similar no-fee permission to Greene/West if they had deigned to ask me, but it seems they couldn't bother to go to the trouble of communicating with the poets whose works they co-opted —
a curse on them and on all poetry anthologists who refuse to honor the due rights of poets, the poet's innate right to have control over the distribution of his or her work.
Reprinting a living poet's work without their personal permission is an insult.
It's not like they couldn't google me and leave me a message on one of the many blogs I've had over the past 7 years . . .
and as I implied above, I would be happy to grant no-fee free permission to anyone who wanted to reprint my work in a venue I feel is appropriate, as long as they have the courtesy to ask me first.
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Dear Mr.Knott
ReplyDeleteI am one of the "crooks". Firstly, I would like to apologize about publishing your poems without your permission. But you should read about our "crapsite" that we are only database so your poems are already published on another "crapsite".
We could remove your poems from our website with deep apologize or we can deal otherwise if you want.
Because I couldn't find an email to contact you there is mine: katherine@poemine.com.
Thanks
well, katherine@poemine, thanks for contacting me, and if you want to put my poems on your site, fine, that's alright with me, i should thank you for doing so, not be belligerent because you didn't ask my permission, so i should apologize to you, since as you point out you're simply redata-doling material from elsewhere on the web . . . in any case i will remove the reference to your site from my post above and try in the future to not get so crotchety about such matters. this blog exists to air my grievances which are mostly absurdly petty and transitory and i doubt anything i write here is taken seriously by anybody
ReplyDeleteI didn't know how seriously did you mean your grievances. Really thanks for permission. If you want to publish your new poems continously on poemine, we can also convert you to a member. Only unique mail and name is needed.
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