Editing Ed Sanders (section)

==Biography==
Sanders was born in [[Kansas City, Missouri]]. He dropped out of the [[University of Missouri]] in 1958 and hitchhiked to New York City's [[Greenwich Village]] to attend [[New York University]]. He graduated in 1964, with a degree in [[Greek language|Greek]].

Sanders wrote his first notable poem, "Poem from Jail", on toilet paper in his cell after being jailed for protesting the launch of [[nuclear submarine]]s armed with nuclear missiles in 1961. In 1962, he founded the [[avant-garde]] journal ''[[Fuck You (magazine)|Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts]]''. Sanders opened the Peace Eye Bookstore at 383 East Tenth Street in what was then the [[Lower East Side]]; the store became a gathering place for [[Bohemianism|Bohemians]], writers and radicals. On January 1, 1966, police raided Peace Eye Bookstore<ref name="fughistory">{{cite web |url=http://www.thefugs.com/history2.html |title=The History of the Fugs 1964–65 |website=Thefugs.com|access-date=June 6, 2011}}</ref> and charged Sanders with obscenity, charges he fended off with the aid of the [[ACLU]]. Notoriety generated by the case led to his appearance on the February 17, 1967 cover of ''[[Life Magazine]]'', which proclaimed him "a leader of New York's Other Culture."<ref name="lifemag">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.originallifemagazines.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/116-702-1700.jpg |title=Life Magazine Cover February 17, 1967 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117221923/https://www.originallifemagazines.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/116-702-1700.jpg |archive-date=January 17, 2024 |url-status=live|magazine=Life |access-date=January 17, 2024 }}</ref>

In late 1964, Sanders founded [[the Fugs]] with [[Tuli Kupferberg]]. The band broke up in 1969 and reformed in 1984. On October 21, 1967, on the [[National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam]]'s [[National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam#1967 March on the Pentagon|March on the Pentagon]], Sanders helped The Fugs and the [[Diggers (theater)|San Francisco Diggers]] in an attempt to "[[exorcise]]" [[The Pentagon]].<ref>Burns, Alexander (October 21, 2005) [http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20051021-pentagon-vietnam-protest-washington-dc-lyndon-johnson-jerry-rubin-david-dellinger-allen-ginsberg-yippie-robert-mcnamara.shtml The Day The Pentagon Was Supposed to Lift Off Into Space] ''[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]]'' {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051219220648/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20051021-pentagon-vietnam-protest-washington-dc-lyndon-johnson-jerry-rubin-david-dellinger-allen-ginsberg-yippie-robert-mcnamara.shtml |date=December 19, 2005 }} </ref> In 1968, he signed the "[[Writers and Editors War Tax Protest]]" pledge, vowing to [[Tax resistance |refuse tax payments]] in protest against the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news |title=April 15 At Noon, Tax Resistance Action |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record-ed-sanders/138974760/ |work=[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]] |date=April 13, 1968 |location=[[Hackensack, New Jersey]] |page=3}}</ref>

In 1969, Sanders recorded and released his first solo album for [[Reprise Records]], ''Sanders' Truck Stop''. Reviewing in ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981), [[Robert Christgau]] wrote: "This is literally a [[country-rock]] takeoff—not a parody but a departure. But though I hesitate to criticize a man who is not only a saint and a genius but who says hello to me at the post office, I must point out that the yodeling country twang Sanders developed with the Fugs has never known the difference between parody and departure, which makes some of these songs seem crueller than they're intended to be. Of course, sometimes they're cruel on purpose—like 'The Iliad,' a saga of good old [[gay bashing|queer-bashing]] with a [[Greek to me|Greek-to-me]] intro. And sometimes, like 'Jimmy Joe, the Hippybilly Boy,' they're—snurfle—lyrical and sad."<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|access-date=March 12, 2019|via=Robertchristgau.com}}</ref>

In 1971, Sanders wrote ''The Family'', a profile of the events leading up to the [[Leno and Rosemary LaBianca|Tate-LaBianca murders]]. He attended the [[Charlie Manson|Manson]] group's murder trial, and spent time at their residence at the [[Spahn Movie Ranch]]. There have been two updated editions of ''The Family'', the most recent in 2002.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Family: Ed Sanders|isbn=<!--9781560253969-->1560253967|last=Sanders|first=Ed|date=November 8, 2002}}</ref> The [[Process Church of the Final Judgment]] sued Sanders's U.S. publisher for [[defamation]] over a chapter linking them with Manson's activities. The case was settled by the publisher, who removed the disputed chapter from future editions. The Process Church then sued Sanders's British publisher, but lost the suit and were forced to pay the defendant's legal fees.<ref name="Love Sex Fear Death">{{cite book | title = Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgement | author = Timothy Wyllie | publisher = [[Feral House]] | year = 2009 | isbn=978-1-932595-37-6}}</ref>

Later in the 1970s, Sanders contracted to write a book about the popular rock band [[Eagles (band)|the Eagles]]. In an interview, Sanders described the contract as paying "very, very well." He worked on it for two years, generating a four volume manuscript that was never published.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Moynihan |first1=Colin |title='Hotel California' Trial Centers on Handwritten Eagles Lyrics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/nyregion/eagles-lyrics-trial-hotel-california.html |access-date=23 February 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 22, 2024}}</ref> In 2005, he sold lyrics worksheets that he'd received in connection with the intended biography, leading to the buyer's and others' prosecution in 2024 for conspiracy to criminally possess stolen property; however, the trial would later be dropped by prosecutors.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/hotel-california-trial-dropped-reason-eagles-b2508032.html|title=Hotel California trial over stolen Eagles lyrics abruptly dropped by prosecutors|first=Roison|last=O'Conner|work=The Independent|date=March 6, 2024|accessdate=March 6, 2024}}</ref> Sanders was not charged.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Peltz |first1=Jennifer |title=In court, Don Henley recounts the making of the Eagles' megahit 'Hotel California' |url=https://apnews.com/article/henley-hotel-california-lyrics-trial-eagles-305107bd8950280a23ae6100a71f0f88 |access-date=4 March 2024 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=February 27, 2024}}</ref>

Sanders is the founder of the Investigative Poetry movement. His 1976 manifesto ''Investigative Poetry'', published by [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]]'s City Lights Books, influenced investigative writing and poetry during the ensuing decades. In the 1990s, Sanders began utilizing the principles of Investigative Poetry to create a series of book-length poems on literary figures and American History. Among these works are ''Chekhov'', ''1968: A History in Verse'', and ''The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg''. In 1998, Sanders began work on a 9-volume ''America, A History in Verse''. The first five volumes, tracing the history of the 20th century, were published in a CD format at over 2,000 pages in length.

Sanders received a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in poetry in 1983, and a [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellowship in poetry in 1987. His ''Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, Selected Poems 1961–1985'' won an [[American Book Awards|American Book Award]] in 1988. He was chosen to deliver the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures at [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|SUNY Buffalo]] in 1983. In 1997, he received a Writers Community residency sponsored by the [[YMCA]] National Writer's Voice through the [[Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund]].

In 1997, he was awarded a grant from the [[Foundation for Contemporary Arts]] Grants to Artists Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grant_recipients/individuals|title=Individuals :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=Foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=August 1, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524151100/http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grant_recipients/individuals|archive-date=May 24, 2015}}</ref> In 2000 and 2003, he was Writer-in-Residence at the New York State Writers Institute in [[Albany, New York]].

Sanders lives in [[Woodstock, New York]], where he publishes the online ''Woodstock Journal'' with his wife of over 56 years, writer and painter Miriam R. Sanders.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.woodstockjournal.com/|title=Woodstock Journal|website=Woodstockjournal.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010124011900/http://www.woodstockjournal.com/ |archive-date=January 24, 2001|url-status=dead |access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref> He also invents musical instruments, including the Talking Tie, the [[microtonal music|microtonal]] Microlyre, and the Lisa Lyre, a musical contraption involving light-activated switches and a reproduction of [[Leonardo da Vinci|Da Vinci]]'s ''[[Mona Lisa]]''.