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searching through fingertips to find a better world, not quite able to make out the shape, but i swear, it's on the front of our tongues right now, escaping in the form of noisemakers, shaking ourselves vulnerable, smacking chips on tables without fully understanding the card in our hands. I am a generation attempting to conceive a living and a difference in the same breath. Cracked pots, forever glued back together, wearing inexperience in a nametag that someday, if we're lucky, might say... "solution"


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From First Thursdays in Honolulu

When I speak of myself well, and in the third person, it tends to sound a bit like this...Jon Sands is a poet living in New York City. In his first year of slam competition he was a member of the LouderARTS New York City poetry slam team, the youngest person ever to do so. Subsequently, he earned position as a finalist at the National Poetry Slam in Austin, TX. Jon has toured throughout North America performing and conducting workshops from university theatres, to dimly lit pubs, to Manhattan needle exchange centers. He is one-fourth of the nationally acclaimed electricity-fest, The SpillJoy Ensemble. He is also currently the Director of Poetry and Arts Education Programming at the Positive Health Project, a needle exchange center located in Midtown Manhattan. Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, author of "Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam" said, “To witness the poetry of Jon Sands is to come face-to-face with a force of nature. He is a baby-faced cyclone, a wild twister of poet who isn't afraid to use everything he's got to move an audience, to absolutely blow them away.” Author of three chapbooks with JKpublishing, Jon is perpetually attempting to discover what makes the sloppy muscle inside our ribs tick into such a beautiful mess.

oh yeah...i'm also kinda like this

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Andre Benjamin, Mahatma Gandhi, Benjamin Franklin, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul, Fozzie Bear, Malcom X, You, Gertrude Stein, Thomas Paine, Stewie Griffin, all relatives that died before my birth, Cee-lo, The Marx Brothers, Lex Luther, Martin Luther King Jr., Moses, Allen Ginsberg, Teddy Roosevelt, Dinosaurs (both the 90s tv show and the real thing), Plato, Timothy Leary, Marvin Lewis, Tom Jackson, Amelia Bedilia, Trey Anastasio, Roald Dahl, Muhammad Ali, Pele, Kris Kros, Dizzy Rascle, Frank O'hara, and the funniest person alive

My Blog

Day 22, Poem 17: When I Return as a Garbage Can

When I Return as a Garbage CanI will make myself a comfortable bulls-eyefor everything dirty.Constructing tiny body parts of the unwanted--an apple core heartsaran wrap liverand kit-kat toes.I will st...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:26:00 GMT

Day 21, Poem 16: In Poetry Slam

In Poetry Slamperforming in grouppieces is like falling inlove on vacation
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:18:00 GMT

Day 21, Poem 15(14 was on facebook): The Show or Professional Anything

The Show or Professional AnythingWe cannot forgive them all the way.These6th grade intruders of our handball game.It is our court.Theseshort-legged, loud-mouth comedians: Not one thinksit is our court...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:40:00 GMT

A list of things I lost on the road (which we'll count for poem 13..even though..ya know..it's

More important than the poem here...If you can help me cross some of these off the list...I'll write a new poem called a list of things I found in New York City.A List of Things I Lost on the Road1.A ...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:20:00 GMT

Day13, Poem 12: The Worst

The Worstit begins somewhere near 58th streetwith a small crack in the sidewalkno wider than a fingernail.on 72ndan 8 year old watches her red marblesrun away toward midtownas a bike messenger traveli...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:40:00 GMT

ummmm...If I can now draw your attention

to Ocean Vuong http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewpro file&friendid=129224253Dude started about 5 days late on 30/30 but is keeping up like high tide on some ridiculous poems.hear...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:58:00 GMT

Day 12, Poem 11: Appendage on "Passover Dinner or Thursday" or Seder

Appendage on "Passover Dinner or Thursday" or Sedermy family is a mutual friendI share with Judaism.they are the only locationwe see one anotherI say Jewish, it has been too long.I had forgotten how c...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:04:00 GMT

Day 10, Poem 10: How It Works Sometimes

How It Works SometimesTwo bus linesEach travelsfrom Chinatownto Bostonback to Chinatownlike a gigantic ping pong ballevery dayevery hour15 dollarsno exceptionsI choose company Bbecause company A's bus...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:32:00 GMT

Day 9, Poem 9: Passover Dinner - or - Thursday

Passover Dinner or ThursdayI ate a burrito for dinner tonight.My family rearranged the entireJewish calendar for Passoverto fall on a weekend.It was more convenient for us.We treat our Jewish as if it...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:24:00 GMT

Day 8, Poem 8: When I Return as a Volcano

When I Return as a Volcanoi will still myselfas the fireburns a soft meditation.there will be childrenwho move from sandboxto cubicleto coffinwho know me only as landscape.as wonder.as beautiful.as de...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:52:00 GMT