Only for licensed poets

But then all poets have license, don’t they?

Poetry Prescriptions from readwritepoem:

How to play along
1. Download the poetry prescription form (PDF format) and save it.

2. Make as many printouts as you want. You should be able to fit two forms on one sheet of paper. Do a little trimming, and you’re good to go.

3. Take the forms with you everywhere you go. Really — you never know when someone will be in need and when your poetic license will be their only hope for a remedy.

4. Fill in the form as completely as possible, putting the prescription in the open area just below the Px symbol. Make sure you sign the form, or it’s not legal. I mean, it’s not legal anyway, but it should be legal.

5. Think about creative ways to get the forms into the community. Do you want to slip some on cafe tables at your favorite place to eat? How about sliding a few into literary magazines? Into poetry books at your local library? You could even put them up on public bulletin boards. (Whatever you do, please don’t litter and don’t do stuff that’s illegal. We don’t want you getting into trouble or making big messes.)

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P.S. This via Colin Kelley: New Stephen King e-book delayed

NEW YORK — The latest weapon in the publishing price wars: Stephen King

Scribner announced Wednesday that the digital edition of King’s “Under the Dome,” a 1,000-plus page novel, would not be released until Dec. 24, virtually the end of the holiday season and a month after the hardcover.

E-books have already been delayed for Sen. Edward Kennedy’s “True Compass” and Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” as publishers try to prevent the cheaper digital editions from taking sales from hardcovers, which, until recently, cost more.

“Given the current state of the marketplace and trends in digital book pricing, we believe that this is the most appropriate publishing sequence for this particular 1088 page work of fiction,” said spokesman Adam Rothberg of Scribner’s parent company, Simon&Schuster.

Thanks to an online price war among Target.com, Amazon and Walmart.com, the hardcover for “Under the Dome,” ”Going Rogue” and other popular November releases can be pre-ordered for $9 or less, a strong source of concern among publishers and independent booksellers, who cannot afford to charge so little.

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