Tom Snarsky

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Tom Snarsky is a math teacher who writes poems. He is a former Robert Noyce Teaching Fellow at Tufts University and a Senior Fellow at the Knowles Teacher Initiative. He is the author of two books forthcoming from Broken Sleep in 2022: Speaking Roles, a collection of poetry interviews, and Complete Sentences, a pamphlet of poems about teaching. He is also the author of the chapbook Threshold, published in 2018 by Another New Calligraphy. In addition to his work in print, several of Tom's chapbooks and pamphlets can be found online as free pdfs: Number Among (Epigraph), WEAKEN (The Argotist Online), 21 small poems (Binbag Press), minimal sonnets with Jo Ianni (Ghost City Press), the pamphlet Two Songs (Fathomsun Press), the self-published Two Notebook Poems, and With Sorrow as My Window and Forgiveness as My Shield, one of the winners of the Boston Uncommon Chapbook Contest at Boston Accent Lit. Along with Kristin Garth he is the co-organizer of Performance Anxiety, a monthly online poetry reading series. He teaches at Lightridge High School in Aldie, Virginia and lives in Bluemont with his wife Kristi. Source

Song

You love me like an eave

Feeding rain to the gutter

 

I love you like a gutter

Fielding rain from the eave

 

Published:

None

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Contemporary

Anthology Years:

2025

Themes:

Love & Relationships

Nature

Literary Devices:

Chiasmus

the usage of words in a clause that are repeated in reverse order

Couplets

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

Simile

a comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”