I've also had trouble with pinning down the snap-spirit. it is, as you
were informed, a verbal snapshot -- written in one sitting, usually
relaying some sort of sense experience in or surrounded by the natural
world. what I think might need to be lacking is a feeling of 'first
version'-ness, the idea that this snap will one day burgeon into a
snapperoo & maybe eventually into a full-blown poem -- the snap is an
end in itself, & a value in itself. but it goes a little contrary to
my own ideas & feelings on writing, it isn't the way I do it; hence
I've submitted very few snaps over the years.
I've been more concerned with editing existing poems into better forms
of themselves lately
KS
On 06/03/2008, Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Could anyone give a definition of a Snap Poem, suitable for getting people
> to write Snap poems at an exhibition?
> I've been looking on Google and not got very far...lots of examples
> but...instructions?
> thanks SallyE
>
> Sally Evans
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