FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions)

• How do I request Permission to use a poem? How to contact a Poet?
• Who owns the copyright of the poems?
• Where do the poems come from? How do I submit my poem?
• How do I find a poem?
• Can I use content which belongs to Family Friend Poems?
• Are all submitted poems published?
• Which poems belong to Family Friend Poems
• I found a poem I would like to post to my daughter wall on facebook but I am not sure if this is allowed?
• Why wasn't my poem posted?
• Why wasn't my story (comment) posted?
• Why should I rate a poem? What are the votes used for?

How do I request Permission to use a poem? How to contact a Poet?

If you are not violating the copyright of the Poet then you do not need to ask them permission.
Example: Printing one copy for a speech does not require permission. However, you should always mention the author and source.

To request permission: Send a email to the poet at: permissions@familyfriendpoems.com. We will then forward your request to the poet; at that point the poet can respond to you directly if they choose.

Keep in mind than in many cases the email address we have on file for the poet will be several years old and no longer active, if that is the case then we will not be able to help you.

Example:

Subject: Poem Permission Request

Dear [Poet’s name],

I found your poem, "[poem title]" located on Family Friend Poems over here:
[Put URL of poem (Link to poem) here: http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/example-poem-url ]


I would like your permission to use your poem in the following manner:
[What you intend to do with the poem]

[For commercially use:
How will you compensate the poet?
Example: Free copy of the book.]
[For noncommercial/personal use:
Guarantee the poets name, copyright (and source) for poem will be printed together with the poem ]

[Your contact information, email, phone number]

Thank You,
[your name, organization]

If you do get permission to use the poem, we at Family Friend Poems always appreciate any mention of our website.
Thank you.

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Where do the poems come from? How do I submit my poem?

Poems displayed on the Family Friend Poems website have been submitted to us through the Submit Poem Form

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Are all submitted poems published?

Certainly not. Submitted poems are first reviewed by up to 10 visitors on our Review Poem page, poems which have a 4 star rating or higher will then be reviewed by our editors and a select few are posted on our website.

If your poem is selected for posting, you will be notified via email. There is a long waiting period for poems to be reviewed (at least 6 months)

As a alternative to submitting your poem, we welcome poets to post their poems on our FFP Poetry Forums, where you can get as well as give feedback immediately from our members, a very special group of poetry lovers.

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Who owns the copyright of the poems?

All poems on this website are copyright by the individual authors. US and international copyright laws apply to all poems published on Family Friend Poems. By submitting a poem to Family Friend Poems, the poet has only agreed that their poems can be published by Family Friend Poems not by you!

All poems displayed on Family Friend Poems have been submitted by the poets themselves. If you feel your poem has been published on this site without your permission, you or your legal representatives should contact us using our Contact Form and ask us to remove the specific poem from the site, this will be done immediately. Please include the URL on Family Friend Poems where the poem is posted, the URL where you originally posted the poem, as well as other relevant information proving the poem is yours.

The publishing rights for all the other material on this website belongs to Family Friend Poems. These materials cannot be used without permission from Family Friend Poems.

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How do I find a poem?

Use our Poem Search Engine ....or navigate with our left-side menu

Poems are organized by Category and then Subcategory.

Use the menu found on the left side of every page to select a main category of poems (Family Poems, Love Poems, Sad Poems etc....)

Clicking on the link will bring you to the home page for the selected main category. The menu on the left will open up and display a list of subcategories.

For example if you click on Family Poems, then you will go the Family Poems home page (www.familyfriendpoems.com/family).

The list of subcategories under Family Poems will list, in alphabetical order, all subcategories of Family Poems (Abuse Poems, Brother Poems, Mother Poems, Sister Poems, etc.)

Please do not ask us for help in finding a specific poem. If searching for it brings up nothing, we won't be able to help you.

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Which content belongs to Family Friend Poems?

On each poems page there is a short introduction to each subcategory. The copyright belongs to Family Friend Poems.

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Can I use content which belongs to Family Friend Poems?

All content on this site which belongs to Family Friend Poems and which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License may be used if you follow our rules for Attribution.

What this means is the following:

• You may email or print content which belongs to Family Friend Poems as long as you clearly label the source as Family Friend Poems
• You may post content which belongs to Family Friend Poems on the internet, ONLY if you include a working clickable dofollow link back to the webpage where you found it AND you quote Family Friend Poems as the source. The Internet includes website's, personal blog's, forums, comments and private or public Profile pages on social networking sites such as Myspace, Facebook etc.
• If you are unsure if your intended use is permitted, Contact Us.

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Why wasn't my poem posted?

It may not have been reviewed yet. See Are all submitted poems published?

If it has been reviewed there are many reasons why we choose not to post poems. The mission of Family Friend Poems is to post poems which touch our visitors. Your poem may not be what we are looking for. Another common reason poems are not posted is spelling, grammar and other errors which would take too much time to correct.

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Why wasn't my story (comment) posted?

• It may not have been reviewed yet.
• If you submit a comment such as "Great Poem", it will not be posted, for the very simple reason that it does not add anything of value to the webpage.
• Another common reason comments are not posted is spelling, grammar and other errors which would take far too much time to correct.
• You submitted a poem instead of a story. Poems should be submitted using our Submit Poem Form or posted on our Poetry Forum

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Why should I rate a poem? What are the votes used for?

Family Friend Poems has a rating system in place and each and every vote for every poem is recorded in our database. We depend on your feedback through rating poems you like as well as for poems which are average or bad.

• We make an assumption. If you are touched by a poem and someone else is touched by the same poem, they are likely to enjoy other poems which you rate highly. By tracking the poems which you rate highly, we can recommend "Related Poems" to you and others. To do this we need you to rate the poems you read. Thank you!
• Votes are used to choose the Poems of the Day and Week.
• Poems are displayed sorted by the poem with the highest average rating.
• Readers choose which poem to read based on the previous visitors rating.
• A poem could get pushed back to page 15 and never read again if it has 1 vote and a 1 out of 5 rating. Your votes do count.

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I found a poem I would like to post to my daughters wall on facebook but I am not sure if this is allowed?

• The following answer is not written by a lawyer and should not be taken as legal advice.
  The copyright of the poem belongs to the author. The author granted Family Friend Poems the non-exclusive rights to publish their poem on our website. The author did not grant anyone who reads the poem the rights to publish the poem on Facebook, therefore, posting an entire poem on Facebook without the author's permission is violating the authors copyright. However, if you only publish a short excerpt of the poem with a link back to the page where you found the poem then it is very likely that you are are not violating anyone's copyright. This is called fair use.

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Why wasn't my question posted here?

• You didn't ask us, So go ahead and ask below or through our contact form

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