What is Ed Sanders?
{{Infobox person | name = Ed Sanders | image = Ed Sanders at House Divided.png | caption = Sanders reading at the House Divided poetry event, [[Cooper Union]], April 2017 | birth_name = Edward Sanders | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|08|17|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Kansas City, Missouri]], U.S. | nationality = American | years_active = 1958{{ndash}}present | occupation = {{flatlist| * Poet * author * publisher * social activist * environmentalist * musician }} | known_for = [[The Fugs]]<br/>''Poem from Jail'', City Lights Books, 1963<br/>Woodstock Journal | education = [[New York University]] | spouse = Miriam Sanders (m. 1967) | awards = Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, American Book Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award }} '''Edward Sanders''' (born August 17, 1939) is an American poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author, publisher and longtime member of the band [[the Fugs]]. He is a well known figure in the [[Beat generation|Beat]] and [[hippie]] generations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.furious.com/perfect/sanders.html|title=Fugs- Ed Sanders|website=Furious.com}}</ref> Sanders was very active in the beginning of the [[counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture's]] creation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/books/fug-you-by-ed-sanders-review.html |title=Present at the Counterculture's Creation |last1=Ratliff |first1=Ben |date=January 11, 2012 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=6 May 2014}}</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanders, Ed}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American environmentalists]] [[Category:American civil rights activists]] [[Category:American political activists]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:Musicians from Kansas City, Missouri]] [[Category:Writers from Kansas City, Missouri]] [[Category:Singers from Kansas City, Miss