Thanks for participating, YesNo and Danik I'm glad I'm not the only one to consider this a worthy project!
Bae, some things have perhaps not been explained clearly enough. Therefore I'd like to stress two important points for our fellow LitNetters:
- If your poems appear in this thread, that does not mean someone has single-handedly decided to include them in the book. It just means someone thinks those poems deserve to be in the book. If you don't want to participate in this project, either because you disapprove of it or because you have other plans with your poems or because you don't hold their copyrights any longer whatever the reason, just let us know, and we will make sure the concerned poems don't appear in the book.
- If one or more of your poems appear in this thread, that does not mean we want to "grab it and run". We're still just gathering poems we like. No copyright issue is involved; not now, and it shall not be in the future. As far as I'm concerned, anyway, you'll only be asked at one moment to permit us to publish your poems in the book. But I don't think we're looking to deprive you of your rights or to sweet-talk you into handing them over to us. You shall remain the only copyright holder of your poems throughout the whole process.