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Author: It’s Not Magic, National Poetry Series Winner (Beacon Press) /
Emotional Historians Workshop Facilitator /
Nostalgia Ambassador

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The leaves outside are shedding chlorophyll as we speak! Which means registration is open for the Fall cycle of the Emotional Historians poetry workshop. The specialest of shout outs to my friends who spread the word. Link in bio! 🍁📝🤯📚📓🧠🫀👻🎃🎷 by @iamjonsands

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Meet Jon Sands, one of the four guest faculty leading this year’s High School Writing Retreat.

Jon Sands is a winner of the National Poetry Series, selected for his second poetry collection, It’s Not Magic (Beacon Press). He is the founder of the Emotional Historians workshop, a series of generative writing classes with well over 1500 registrants to date. His work has been featured in The New York Times, published in The Rumpus, The Millions, The Journal, The Brooklyn Rail, The Poetry Foundation, and many others, as well as anthologized in The Best American Poetry. He is a curator for SupaDupaFresh, a monthly reading series at Cheryl’s Global Soul in Brooklyn, and has received residencies and fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Jerome Foundation, and the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

Visit the link in our bio to learn more + register for this year’s High School Writing Retreat.

You can catch Sands at ACW on Thursday, October 29 at ACW for Poetry On Broadway. He will be joined by Noah Arhm Choi, Denice Frohman, and Lauren Whitehead. Come hear these award-winning poets and performers bring their powerful words to life – this is a night you won’t want to miss!

This event is free and open to all. Register now through the link in our bio.

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10 lucky poets can save $55 on in-person tickets to the first day of our festival — TOMORROW Friday, October 2, featuring workshops with Jon Sands and K. Iver, a a craft talk with Tina Chang, a panel on debut collections ft. Ahana Ganguly (Futurepoem), Roberto Carlos Garcia (Get Fresh Books), Hannah Matheson (Four Way Books) & Carey Salerno (Alice James Books) and readings including all those folks and Francisco Márquez! Available until 7:30am or until available tickets run out, tickets will be available at regular price at the door! taken in Brooklyn Poets by @iamjonsands

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Join us on Friday, October 2 for the first day of our Poetry Festival featuring workshops with Jon Sands and K. Iver, a a craft talk with Tina Chang, a panel on debut collections ft. Ahana Ganguly (Futurepoem), Roberto Carlos Garcia (Get Fresh Books), Hannah Matheson (Four Way Books) & Carey Salerno (Alice James Books) and readings including all those folks and Francisco Márquez!

Day passes now available. Save $40 (or $115 for members) on 3-day passes through September 13th. Swipe through to see the lineup & register at the link in our bio! taken in Brooklyn Poets by @iamjonsands

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The full lineup for our Poetry Festival is here! If you missed our super early registration period, you can still save $40 (or $115 for members) on 3-day passes. Swipe through to see the lineup & register at the link in our bio!

Passes for individual days will be released on September 7th–—please note that we have limited in-person capacity for this event and cannot guarantee individual day passes will be available.

Featured poets include Tina Chang, Natalie Diaz, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Fatimah Asghar, Shira Erlichman, Joan Kwon Glass, K. Iver, Angel Nafis, Jon Sands, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Heather Gluck, Ahana Ganguly, Eugenia Leigh, Hannah Matheson, Kwame Opoku-Duku, Megan Pinto, Carey Salerno, Mary Sutton, leena aboutaleb, Francisco Márquez and Jayson Smith. taken in Brooklyn Poets by @iamjonsands

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Happy Fall, Fam!

We bringing the heat of summer to the newly crowned Fall evening as we celebrate the mighty mighty Isaac Fitzgerald. Author. Cultural Juggernaut. And book aficionado.

Join us at @cherylsglobalsoul to celebrate their work, party to new poems, and two-step our way into the summer season with joy. Together. List opens at 6:30. 🌸 taken in Cheryl's Global Soul by @iamjonsands

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Just a couple grade-schoolers spending their own money on John Starks jerseys in the 90s, only to dust them off decades later for this reading in Brooklyn only to find!… by @iamjonsands

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Happy spring, good people! 🌸

Back in action next week with brilliant poet & literary phenom Emily Lee Luan 🌸

Join us at @cherylsglobalsoul to celebrate their work, party to new poems, and two-step our way into the summer season with joy. Together. List opens at 6:30. 🌸 taken in Cheryl's Global Soul by @iamjonsands

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Good people! Trying-to-be-good people! Medium people! Registration is open for the summer cycle of the Emotional Historians poetry workshop. The specialest shout out to my friends who spread the word. Link in bio! ☀️📝🤯📚📓🧠👻🫀💥🎷 by @iamjonsands

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