John Giorno Interview: A Visit to the Poet

“Poetry never dies. You can’t kill poetry.” We called on John Giorno – one of the most influential figures in contemporary performance poetry – in his legendary home on the Bowery in New York, to talk about the innate freedom and possibilities of poetry. For five decades John Giorno has lived on 222 Bowery in New York City, in one of the city’s first YMCA’s dating back to the 1880s. On the top floor, Andy Warhol’s film ‘Sleep’, starring John Giorno, was first shown to filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who put it on