--- robert lane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Is a poem considered published if it is a snap, on a
> blog, or on a personal website?
The "prior publication" issue & the web is one that
will have to be solved. Stand, for instance, is a UK
Charity that in its charter (or so I'm told) is
required to publish only new work. I think this has
been interpreted in the past to mean, mostly, work
disseminated with some width and permanance. We would
all consider as prior publication work in an on-line
journal that is indexed and archived off-site in
libraries, has an ISSN, etc. I don't know that anyone
would consider a personal website as prior
publication, because it could be unpublished in a
jiffy. Everything else is a kind of grey area.
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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