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.