Ed Sanders (born August 17, 1939) is an American poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, novelist and publisher. Sanders was born in Kansas City,Missouri. He dropped out of Missouri University in 1958 and hitchhiked to New York City’s Greenwich Village. He wrote his first major poem, Poem from Jail, on toilet paper in his cell after being jailed for protesting against nuclear proliferation in 1961. In 1962, he founded the avant-garde journal, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts.