Snap Interview
Q: Hi, how's by you?
A: 'kay, thanks. Bye.
Hal
"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient
to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq
war is largely about oil."
--Alan Greenspan
Halvard Johnson
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On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:06 AM, kasper salonen wrote:
> 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
>> http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
>> http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
>> http://www.myspace.com/poetsallyevans
>>
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