[Kevin Greene]

Good people,

Might someone point me to a comprehensive discussion of copyright and attribution as it applies to poetry? That is, how to give proper credit to the authors of materials that are incorporated into one's poems. I'm thinking in particular of sentences or short passages that are incorporated as 'found' poetry.

I know how it's done with academic papers---well, I used to know---but I have no idea how this works with poems. This won't be parody, so I imagine the restrictions are rather tight. Then again, I doubt if I would seek to publish any of this planned series of poems, but I do want to give credit where it is due and to point the reader to the original sources.

I don't want to fill the poems with footnotes, but will if this is what's expected. Ideally I could just give all the detail in a 'Notes' section.

Any help will be MUCH appreciated.

Kevin

P.S. How embarrassing is it to misspell something in one's headline?