Founded in
1962 by
Ed Sanders, poet, author, and member of the band the
Fugs. Its credo was “I’ll print anything”, and Sanders cranked out thirteen issues on a
mimeograph machine, printing work by
Tuli Kupferberg,
Charles Olson,
Peter Orlovsky,
Philip Whalen,
Allen Ginsberg,
Frank O’Hara,
Julian Beck,
Herbert Huncke,
Gary Snyder,
Diane DiPrima,
William Burroughs,
Leroi Jones,
Gregory Corso,
Robert Creeley,
Michael McClure,
Ted Berrigan,
Joe Brainard, and
Andy Warhol.
Sanders didn’t find many fans in the
NYPD, and the cops raided his
Peace Eye Bookstore and charged him with obscenity, charges he fended off with the aid of the
ACLU. This caused his face to end up on the cover of
Life magazine (Feb. 17,
1967), which proclaimed him "a leader of
New York's Other Culture."