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Ellen Sander
In the mid-late sixties, Ellen Sander was one of a handful of
writers that helped invent rock journalism. After a cavort through
rock journalism that permanently illuminated her imagination,
and a book, Trips (Scribners) a memoir of that voyage, she moved from New York
to Bolinas, north of San Francisco, California at a time when
it was rife with poetry. Surrounded by poets and the politics
of poetics, the ocean and a wildlife preserve, engaged by the
first years of motherhood, and a young green Arabian horse, her
life and literary orientation began to shift like tectonic plates.
In addition to the voluptuous setting in the foothills of Mt.
Tam, she was mentored by the presence of some of the finest living
poets on the contemporary American landscape: Hawkins, Creeley,
Clark, MacAdams, Kyger, Saroyan (who brought Malanga over), and
more. A performance poet, who still lapses into journalism from
time to time, she lives on Venice beach in L.A. watching the constant
parade of the fabulous chasing the incorrigible mixing with the
wisps of the beats and bohos that lived and wrote here before
there were personal computers.
2000 update: Ellen is currently very busy writing, teaching computers and working
on her house.
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