Sanders has finished Poems for New Orleans, a full-length CD of spoken poetry with musical accompaniment by some of the finest New Orleans musicians. The CD was recorded in sequences of sessions in February and April this year. Poems for New Orleans will be released by Paris Records.

Poems for New Orleans features a sequence of verse which explores the origins of New Orleans in the early 18th Century, with additional poems set in New Orleans during the 19th and 20th centuries, and a concluding sequence which focuses on the aftermath of the Katrina disaster. Sanders has studied intently the deliberate neglect and scandalously inept reconstruction (and nonreconstruction) of New Orleans following the region’s calamity.

The CD was recorded at Mark Bingham’s Piety Street Recording studio in New Orleans. Mark Bingham, a noted composer, supervised and created the music to accompany the verse.

In addition to the CD, Poems for New Orleans will be published as a book.

Paris Records, founded and owned by Michael Minzer, is based in Dallas, and has produced a number of historically important literary CDs, including Allen Ginsberg’s The Lion for Real. In addition to Sanders’ Poems for New Orleans, Paris Records will be issuing CDs by Robert Creeley, Gregory Corso (with Marianne Faithfull), Hunter Thompson, Kathy Acker, Ira Cohen and others.

Look for Volume 4 of America, a History in Verse (1971-1985) to be published in 2007.

America, a History in Verse, Volumes 1 (1900-1939), 2 (1940-1961), and 3 (1962-1970) were published by Black Sparrow/David Godine. America will be a 9-volume work tracing the 15th through the 20th centuries.

Volume 5 (1986-2000) is just about completed; a enhanced CD version of Volumes 1-5, The Twentieth Century, will be published

E.S. has the remaining five volumes of America in draft form, and will seek to publish a full 9-volume edition when the project is completed.

Thunder's Mouth Press in 2004 published all four volumes of Tales of Beatnik Glory, completing a project begun in 1973. These interconnected stories trace the years 1957 through 1969, and feature the lives of poets, activists, artists, novelists, musicians during those years.

For several years, E.S. has been working with Vincent Fremont and Shelly Dunn Fremont on a movie version of Tales of Beatnik Glory. Several table reads have been held, and noted producer Jon Kilik has helped the project considerably.

Sanders' Fun is Good: Poems– 1991-2006, which will be published by Coffee House Press.

Also in the works is The Fugs Final CD (Part 2), for which E.S. and Fugs co-founder Tuli Kupferberg have written enough tunes to fill two CDs.

Sanders produced and directed the Fugs Final CD, Part 1, which Artemis Records released in 2003. The Fugs performed twice in ’03, in July in New York City, and in September at Page Hall in Albany, sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute.

Sanders produced a tribute to Allen Ginsberg at the Woodstock Poetry Festival in August 2003, and "Great Songs Night," a concert featuring excellent songs written in Woodstock during the past few decades as part of the Byrdcliffe Centennial Celebration.

Sanders was Writer in Residence at the New York State Writers Institute in Albany, teaching a course in Investigative Writing, during the fall 2003 term.

Sanders' poetry CD, Thirsting for Peace, was released by Olufsen Records, featuring the extended, multi-part “Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century,” performed with the Microlyre, an electronic instrument with a curved keying surface which plays a 32-note-to-the-octave microtonal scale.

After eight years publishing the Woodstock Journal with his wife, the artist and writer Miriam Sanders, the publication switched to an all-web format, which can be reached at woodstockjournal.com

Edward Sanders
Box 729, Woodstock, N.Y. 12498
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