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[[File:johngiorno.jpg|200px|thumb|left|John Giorno]]

==Country==

United States

==Birth - Death==

1936 -

==Occupation==

Artist, Poet, Activist

==Description==

Poet and performance artist.  Notable for creating text-based poetry and recorded poetry distorted by synthesizers, and other forms of performance poetry, much of which reflects queer sexuality.  Founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems, and the AIDS charity, the AIDS Treatment Project (1984).  Subject of [[Andy Warhol]]'s film 'Sleep' (1963).

==Further Reading/Research==

* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-giorno
* http://www.artnews.com/2017/05/05/in-honor-of-his-80th-birthday-john-giorno-will-be-the-subject-of-a-new-york-city-wide-survey-in-june/
* https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2017/7/19/prolific-gay-artist-john-giorno-reflects-his-new-retrospective-andy-warhol-aids