Ed Sanders

'FUG YOU': A Decade of Poetry, Politics, and Rock 'n' Roll

Jan Herman | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: The Fugs, Ed Sanders, Thomas Pynchon, V., Peace Eye Bookstore, Lower East Side, Allen Ginsberg, The Chicago 7 Trial, Books News
Jan Herman

FUG YOU reads like a nonfiction outtake from Thomas Pynchon's V. The tales Sanders tells, bizarre but true, are buttressed by illustrations and citations from a mammoth archive he compiled through the years.

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Remembering Tuli

Paul Krassner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, The Fugs, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Tuli Kupferberg Dead, Entertainment News
Paul Krassner

My friend and counter-cultural icon Tuli Kupferberg was a dedicated truthseeker, and I'd like to honor that quality, and his memory, with a couple of truths.

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For The Benefit Of Tuli Kupferberg

Michael Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Lewis, Gary Lucas, Ken Weaver, Jolie Holland, Lenny Kaye, Richard Belzer, The Fugs, Laurie Anderson, John Kruth, Coen Brothers, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Sonic Youth, Peter Stampfel, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Hal Willner, Richie Havens, Lenny Bruce, Philip Glass, Lou Reed, East Village, Entertainment News
Michael Simmons

For those who trot out the tired cliché of hippies morphing into stockbrokers, check out the Fugs. No sell-out here.

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National Poetry Month: Breeding Hyperlinks Out of the Dead Land

Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan Galassi, Patricia Smith, National Poetry Month, Jenny Holzer, D.A. Powell, Elizabeth Bishop, Linh Dinh, Mahmoud Darwish, Ed Sanders, Rae Armantrout, Sonia Sanchez, Bob Perlman, Amber Tamblyn, Books News
Travis Nichols

It's National Poetry Month, so media outlets all across the country are shining a spotlight on the art form they normally ignore, mangle, or treat with derision. Hooray!

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This Thanksgiving, Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War

Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Sanders, Louise Erdrich, Trojan War, Jack Spicer, Thanksgiving Poems, Poetry, First Thanksgivings, Native Americans, Thanksgiving, Colonists, Poems, American Colonists, Books, Mary Rowlandson, Books News
Travis Nichols

In Mary Rowlandson's hugely popular captivity narrative from 1676, she describes her colony's struggles with the natives and how, when such a struggle was won, the town leaders held days of public thanksgiving.

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