Jon Sands

Jon Sands is a winner of the National Poetry Series, selected for his second poetry collection, It’s Not Magic (Beacon Press, 2019). He is the facilitator of the Emotional Historians workshop, a series of generative writing classes with well over 1000 registrants to date. His work has been featured in The New York Times, published in The Rumpus, The Millions, Cortland Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Poetry Foundation website, and The Best American Poetry. He is a curator for SupaDupaFresh, a monthly reading series at Cheryl’s Global Soul in Brooklyn. (Source)

Poems by Jon Sands

If You Were On That Train by Jon Sands

November 5, 2025

“It was a good day! / None of this is a metaphor.” — Jon Sands

It's A Lot by Jon Sands

July 3, 2025

“It's a lot to not get your feelings hurt, / to let emotions pass through you, / to see your mother look like your grandmother. / It's all very necessary, but it's still a lot—” — Jon Sands

Poems curated by Jon Sands

january by Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie

September 13, 2025

“I admire the grabbiness of lungs / I admire my thorough heart / I admire most that they are inseparable / what the lung grabs the heart uses” — Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie