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Please read this Lucid Moon Poetry Website Reprint Permissions Policy before posting anything on this website. As of August 2004, I am adopting a reprint permission policy agreement, and I would like to have your help. The original Lucid Moon Poetry Magazine was published from 1997 to 1999 and cost $1000 per monthly issue. I have never asked for a reading fee or a fee to post things on my website. I would like to ask permission to republish most of the material from the old issues of the magazine in new issues in book form. I would also like to reprint the best guest book entries, snail mail and e-mail messages in the Letters, Oh We Get Letters column and in the newsletters area. I would also like to reprint articles, book reviews, columns, essays, interviews, poems, and short stories and other writings that appear on my website into newsletter form, and eventually into book form. The material in the newsletter books will be different than the material in the magazine books. Also, I don't think it's overkill to reprint material on several areas in the website. For instance, Poesy Magazine editor Brian Morrisey posted an open letter to me and other poets that he wants read at my Poetry Festival on June 28, 2003. He posted it in my guest book because the letters column, newsletter area and the poetry essays and lectures areas were not up yet. I think Brian's letter would be fine for all those areas. You wanted me to promote your material and that's exactly what I will be doing. No one ever gave me first time rights only. I would appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Also please get in the habit of writing PS at the bottom of your letter, telling me whether it is alright or not for me to publish your letter in the letters column, or in the letters section of the newsletter. Also, I will try to give you some sort of discount on the books when the newsletters and magazines are collected into book form. I was flabbergasted to read an interview with Allen Ginsberg in 1997 right before he died, where he said that he only made $8000 a year in royalties from his books. Given a generous $8 royalty per book that's a thousand books a year. I would have to sell 400 copies of each book to break even. While I think that writers should be compensated for their efforts there is no way that I could afford to give all the contributors a free copy of each issue. So please work with me and your writings will get the exposure they deserve. Best of all, the books stay in print forever because they are done with the printing on demand technology (check out the link to AuthorHouse, formerly 1stBooks, on the homepage balloon area). I thank you for your cooperation.

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Also, anyone can reprint my poems as long as you send me a copy of the magazine or book in which it appears, or tells me the address of the website on which it is posted. Poems don't sell well, and I want to make my poems available to publishers who may be struggling financially. I'll always remember the kindness of Bob Rosenthal and the Allen Ginsberg trust, who was kind enough to allow me to publish 4 of Allen's poems for free in my Lucid Moon magazine in 1998. However, if you have a policy of paying for cartoons and other writings, I would like to get paid because I have almost no income. Good luck with all your poetry endeavors.
Ralph Haselmann, Jr. editor, Lucid Moon Review Poetry Website

Lucid Moon Review Poetry Website and Newsletter, Ralph Haselmann Jr., editor
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