November 8, 2002: Volume 56, Number 9

Poet Ed Sanders reads and performs Nov. 14

Poet, musician, activist, and cultural chronicler Edward Sanders will perform his work on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. in the Yulman Theater at Union College.

The event is free and open to the public.

Sanders' volumes of poetry include Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, Hymn to the Rebel Café, 1968, and Chekov, as well as his ongoing multi-volume project, America: A History in Verse.  He is also the author of Tales of Beatnik Glory, a collection of stories, and of The Family, an account of the Charles Manson Group.

A founder and leader of the rock group The Fugs, Sanders operated the Peace Eye Bookstore on New York's Lower East Side from 1964 to 1970. He is the editor of The Woodstock Journal, a local paper dedicated to social and environmental activism.

Sanders has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His selected poems received the American Book Award.

For information, call (518) 388-6131.

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