John Giorno (born 1936) is an American poet and performance artist. He founded the artist collective Giorno Poetry Systems and coined its mass communication experiment "Dial-A-Poem". He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film "Sleep". He is also an AIDS activist and fundraiser. Wikipedia
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