John Giorno

Born

December 04, 1936 in New York, New York

Died

October 12, 2019

Popularity

0.4974

Biography

John Giorno 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, including Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film Sleep.