Ed Sanders

Ed Sanders is a poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, novelist and publisher who was born August 17, 1939 in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Ed Sanders dropped out of Missouri University in 1958 and hitchhiked to New York City?s Greenwich Village. He has been called a bridge between the Beat and the Hippie generations.

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He wrote his first major poem (Poem from Jail) on toilet paper in his cell after being jailed for protesting against nuclear proliferation in 1961.

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In 1962, he founded the avant-garde journal, '. Sanders opened the Peace Eye Bookstore (147 Avenue A in what was then the Lower East Side) which became a gathering place for bohemians and radicals.

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Sanders graduated from New York University in 1964, with a degree in Classics.

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In 1965, he founded the Fugs with Tuli Kupferberg. The band broke up in 1969 and reformed in 1984.

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In 1971, Sanders wrote The Family, a profile of the events leading up to the Tate-LaBianca murders. He obtained access to the "Manson Family" by posing as a "Satanic guru-maniac and dope-trapped psychopath."

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Sanders currently lives in Woodstock, New York where he publishes the Woodstock Journal with his wife of over 36 years, the writer and painter Miriam R. Sanders.

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He also invents musical instruments such as the Talking Tie, the microtonal Microlyre and the Lisa Lyre, a musical contraption involving light-activated switches and the Mona Lisa painting.

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Poet: Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. Poets are often regarded as imaginative thinkers or writers. Bad poets are called poetasters....

Singer: :For other senses of this word, see singer (disambiguation)....

Social activist: Social activists are people who act as the conscience and voice of many individuals within a society. They address and challenge their nation on ethical and moral, human rights, animal rights, and environmental issues, to name a few....

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