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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Poet - Singer - Social activist - Environmentalist - Novelist - Publisher - August 17 - 1939 - 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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Missouri University - 1958 - New York City?s - Greenwich Village - Beat - Hippie

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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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1962 - Avant-garde - Lower East Side

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

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New York University - 1964

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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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1965 - The Fugs - Tuli Kupferberg

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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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Tate-LaBianca murders - Manson Family

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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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Woodstock, New York - 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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Microtonal - Mona Lisa

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