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Ed Sanders Saint Helena, United States of America    PWF 2005, 2001

In New York City’s Greenwich Village he hung out on the edge of the Beat scene preparing himself unwittingly for the important role that he would assume in American literary life: providing a bridge between Beatnik and Hippie generations. A brief jail stay for his 1961 protest of nuclear proliferation yielded Sanders‘ first major Poem from Jail. Sanders also became well-known as a founder and a leading force of a satirical, literate-tone folk rock band the Fugs which performed at Vietnam War protests nationwide.

In 1988 he won American Award for Literature for his collection of poems Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Selected Poems 1961-1985. His journalism has appeared in The Village Voice and The New York Times, and he lectures widely on Investigative Poetry.

Ed Sanders lives in Woodstock, New York.