Giorno Poetry Systems

Giorno Poetry Systems is a non-profit organization that supports artists, poets, and musicians, and centers their perspectives.

It’s based on the idea of artists supporting other artists.

Artists, poets, and musicians curate our events, they select tracks for our record label, they jury our grants, and their voices are heard on all of our phone lines. 

GPS was founded in 1965 and became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 1974. It was created by the artist, poet, and activist John Giorno (1936–2019), who pushed poetry off the printed page and into visual, musical, political, and social realms. GPS also supports his work and maintains his extensive archive of the downtown New York poetry, art, performance, and music communities.