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Question about publishing a poem that uses prompts

in General Discussion

I love a good prompt on Instagram to write a poem. I have a question regarding them though - just say a poet posts prompts for the month of June or has a list of prompts and you create a magnificent poem with them. Can you later on publish that poem in a book? The reason why I ask is I have a few poems I have written that I absolutely love, but a couple words were from a prompt. In that instance, should I ask them for permission? Another poem has a line out of a song lyric that we were supposed to use and I feel like especially for that one I will need to reframe the text, so it is not looked upon as plagiarizing. Let me know your thoughts. I'm sure you all know the answer and can educate this newbie. 😂

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Matthew Hutchins

Jun 15, 2021

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It’s not really all that different from a poem you wrote after being inspired more organically. Nothing wrong with it or disqualifying about using prompts. The work should stand on its own merit. If its a good poem, I don’t care what got the gears turning :)