Did Dick Cheney Try to Get Clandestine Money from Saudi Arabia for an Attack on Iran?
Impeach Cheney First, an image for your refrigerator door
Letters from Woodstock (to be updated. 2007 is an election year in Woodstock. The pro-excessive development forces are drooling to ruin this American art colony with grim landscape-ruining minimalls, and subdivisions. They'll of course be hipper than hip, with subdivisions like "I Used to Smoke Pot Heights," or "Jimi was a Great Guitarist Avenue."
Ralph Martel— Brilliant American Sculptor and Artist: Acquire his work!
An Appreciation of Alf Evers
The Drive for Honest Elections
Edward Sanders: Recent Glyph-Poems
Edward Sanders: Recent Visual Poems
Miriam Sanders' Essays on Nature
Vote Fraud Treason in America (to be updated)
An interesting Flow:
John Kerry and the First Five Months of 1971— Some Clues to What His Presidency
Might Have Been (pdf)
Additional Verses for "America the Beautiful" —Edward Sanders, for Tuli Kupferberg's Parasong project (pdf)
Ode to d.a. levy (pdf)
A Tribute to Gregory Corso
Where Not to Smoke Pot in Woodstock
Edward Sanders' CV
Ed Sanders Current Activities
Peace Eye Books--New Catalog of Books Coming
Email Woodstock Journal
 

Salute to Wavy Gravy on his 70th Birthday

You can order Edward Sanders' limited edition, signed, publication of the 41-page A Biographic Appreciation of Wavy Gravy, with the 9 minute "Anthem to Wavy Gravy" CD included.

$25 to Heavy Metal Music Box 729, Woodstock, NY 12498

 

In print! Tales of Beatnik Glory, Vols. 1, 2, 3, & 4 in a single volume! from Thunder's Mouth Press.

See reviews in New York Press and St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rain Taxi Review of Books

  Be sure and purchase America, a History in Verse, Volume 3, (1962-70) The Ultimate Book on the 1960s, and an excellent reference work for those who seek to refresh or study this important era
 
CHECK OUT THE GOOD REVIEW of America, Volume 3 in the July 4th, 2004 Los Angeles Times
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Song for Barack Obama

—Edward Sanders

just composed and recorded

link to text

If you'd like a CD of the tune, contact me at Box 729

Woodstock, NY 12498

 

 

The Bill and Monica Years
1995-1997

from

America, a History in Verse,

Volume 5 (1986-2000)

(to appear in America, the 20th Century,

Volumes 1-5, a CD edition!!! with indexes

to all volumes)

Edward Sanders

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Oh, 1968!

We are going to post some writings about 1968, the first being a poem about Robert Kennedy

Reciting Some Lines from Aeschylus in his Great and Spontaneous Speech April 4, 1968, upon hearing of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

read the poem

 

 

A Tribute to Sappho

—a talk, with music, given at Poet's House in New York City, March 30, 2001

read the talk

 

The Collected Brief Plays of Edward Sanders

A Collection of 26 Brief Plays (from 20 seconds to 4 to 5 minutes in length) written during the last 15 years.

Try them out in your theaters!

Read the Text

 

A Possible Path to force the Military-Industrial-Surrealist-Complex to Bring the Troops Home from Iraq

Read the Text

 

Some Poems about the Neocon Scam that Has Been Attempted in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Billions Missing from Money Voted by Congress to Help Homeowners in New Orleans after Katrina Disaster

Read the Poems

 

Poems for New Orleans, a 77 + minute CD of 15 poems about the great Crescent City, past and present, is now published! Ed Sanders worked on this CD from January through May, recording it at Piety Street Studios in New Orleans. Mark Bingham composed and produced the music for the 15 poems. The music, performed by almost 40 of N.O.'s finest musicians and performers, is absolutely brilliant!!!!

Poems for New Orleans is available from parisrecords.net

Watch for the book version of Poems for New Orleans, to be published by North Atlantic Books (Distributed by Random House) in August, 2008!!!

 

 

Recent Essay by Edward Sanders

Writing, Social Activism and Revolution

a Talk with Poetry and Music

—the keynote address to the New York College English Association Spring Converence,

SUNY New Paltz, April 11

 

New Poem by Edward Sanders, "In Praise of William Morris," from America, a History in Verse, Volume 6, The 19th Century

 

Poems for New Orleans

–a report on the recent Book and CD project

Edward Sanders

link to report

 

 

 

Ode to Helen Hill

a biographic poem on the New Orleans filmmaker

Edward Sanders

 

 

 

A Salute to Wavy Gravy!!!

This is a biographical salute to the vast-vim'd human known as Wavy Gravy. Shakespeare once began a poem, "Who is Silvia? What is she?" Those are the questions we shall try to answer in this appreciation. Who is Wavy Gravy? What is he? as we trace his life and times, pointing out interesting facts here and there, in order to savor and understand the meaning of his celebrated voyage in the Great Flow.

Link to complete Biographic Appreciation of the Wavester.

 

The Fall of Richard Nixon
1974

Worth Studying to See How it Is to Remove a Would-Be Tyrant from American Office

from "America, A History in Verse, Volume 4." (watch for "America, The Twentieth Century," a CD version of America, Volumes 1-5, out in 2008!!!)



TRANSLATION OF NEWLY DISCOVERED
POEM BY SAPPHO OF MITYLENE

New & Updated Poem by Edward Sanders

The Indictment and Conviction of George Bush— a World Wide Party

link to poem

 


A Poetic Essay on the Recent History and Future Fate of the Manufacture and Use of Landmines in the World. You think landmines are being phased out? Read this Essay

 

Link to Landmines Essay


A Visit To Prague
for the 2005
Prague Writers' Festival

In early June of 2005, I visited Prague to take part in the Prague Writers’ Festival. It was a very interesting and complicated time for me, which plucked the strings of much that has happened in the last forty years, so I decided to prepare a report. I’ll begun with some memories of how one of my bardic mentors impacted world history through a trip he made to Prague in the spring of 1965.


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