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John Giorno (December 4, 1936 – October 11, 2019) was an American poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events.
Oct 13, 2019 · John Giorno, who turned to the world of art and the mechanisms of mass media to shake poetry loose from the page and embed it more deeply in the fabric of everyday life, died on Friday at his...
Learn about John Giorno, a poet and visual artist who collaborated with Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Patti Smith. Explore his innovative use of technology, language, and Buddhism in his poetry and art.
John Giorno was born on December 4, 1936, in New York City. After earning a BA from Columbia University in 1958, Giorno established himself as an active presence in New York’s art scene, lauded for his starring role in Andy Warhol’s five-hour film Sleep (1963).
Giorno Poetry Systems. 222 Bowery GPS Records Dial-A-Poem Grants John Giorno. About. Instagram. Newsletter. Store. Giorno Poetry Systems is a non-profit organization that supports artists, poets, and musicians, and centers their perspectives.
Aug 3, 2020 · Performance poet John Giorno helped make poetry popular by circumventing the regular channels of publishing by using such projects as Dial-A-Poem. He died last fall, and his memoir is out...
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John Giorno (1936–2019) was a poet, performer, visual artist, activist, practicing Buddhist in the Tibetan Nyingma lineage, and founder of Giorno Poetry Systems. In his own words, he was “determined to make poetry a razor blade cutting through the ego of America's karma.”
