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- This venture allowed individuals to access brief poems by contemporary poets via telephone, forging a novel connection between technology and poetry. Collaboration was a hallmark of Giorno's work, as he joined forces with renowned artists, including William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Some of the poets and artists who recorded or collaborated with Giorno Poetry Systems were William Burroughs, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg, Anne Waldman, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
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In the early 1960s, young New York City-born poet John Giorno became acquainted with artists who were at the threshold of their successful careers, most notably Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Merce Cunningham and John Cage.
Giorno met the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone in 1998, beginning a relationship that lasted the rest of his life, and married in 2017. During the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, Giorno collaborated with a younger generation of artists, including Pierre Huyghe, Michael Stipe, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Some of the poets and artists who recorded or collaborated with Giorno Poetry Systems were Burroughs, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Mapplethorpe.
In 1965, he founded Giorno Poetry Systems, a nonprofit production company designed to introduce new, innovative poetry to wider audiences. In 1967, Giorno called upon fellow artists and friends, including William S. Burroughs, Frank O’Hara , and Patti Smith , to record poems for his Dial-a-Poem project, which used the telephone to connect ...
He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events. Giorno's creative journey was marked by collaborations, groundbreaking initiatives, and a deep exploration of diverse art forms.
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.”
