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Steve welcomes Virginia poet Tom Snarsky for a conversation about poetry, mathematics, and the impact of modern life on language and connection.

In Episode 433 of The Art Box, Steve welcomes Virginia poet Tom Snarsky for a thoughtful and wonderfully wandering conversation about poetry, mathematics, the internet, rejection, collaboration, and the strange beauty of language in modern life. Tom is the author of several poetry collections including Light-Up Swan, Reclaimed Water, and his newest release A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems. Living in the mountains of northwestern Virginia, Tom writes poems that are at once deeply conversational, intellectually curious, and quietly human. Together, Steve and Tom explore how poems begin with fragments, titles, sounds, and passing observations before slowly gathering momentum into something tangible. The conversation drifts through Robert Frost, David Lynch, online poetry communities, social media as both blessing and distraction, and the ways modern life changes how we experience love, death, and connection. It’s an episode about attention, conversation, and the invisible harmonics that hold art together — even in a world that keeps asking us to scroll past it. Follow Tom on Instagram @tomsnarsky @night_light_poems_ LinkTree His new book of poetry MOUNTEBANK can be found…

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