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. 

Open by appointment.
Open for events.
Open for 222 Tuesdays (4–7pm}.

222 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
USA

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Read our end-of-year newsletter from 2025 and the one from 2024, which provides a useful overview of all programs and activities.

GPS is not an endowed foundation but a public charity, and we rely on the ongoing support of our community. Your contributions make it possible for us to provide artists, poets, and musicians with transformative opportunities and to produce events and publications that can be shared with a broad and diverse audience.

Eli Coplan
Curator and Programming Manager
eli@giornopoetrysystems.org

Anthony Huberman
Executive Artistic Director
anthony@giornopoetrysystems.org

AJ Medeiros
Shop Manager
aj@giornopoetrysystems.org

Bonnie Whitehouse
Archivist and Registrar
bonnie@giornopoetrysystems.org

General information
info@giornopoetrysystems.org

Bookkeeping
accounting@giornopoetrysystems.org

Graphic design
David Reinfurt

Photography
Nick Sethi

Board of Trustees:
Ugo Rondinone, President
Laura Hoptman, Vice-President
Mattias Herold, Treasurer

Advisory Council:
Laurie Anderson
Pedro Barbosa
Stuart Comer
Kyle Dacuyan
Adrienne Edwards
Connor Monahan
Elizabeth Peyton
Paul Pfeiffer
Lee Ranaldo
Leah Singer
Anne Waldman

Giorno Poetry Systems is generously supported by:

Mellon Foundation
Teiger Foundation
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council 
The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature
I.A. O'Shaughnessy Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Westridge Foundation
Keith Haring Foundation
Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz- Picasso
Aurora Music Foundation

Gillian McCain
Patrick Collins
Amy Sillman
Elizabeth Peyton
Pedro Barbosa
Shane Akeroyd
Kathy Halbreich
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Galerie Almine Rech
kurimanzutto
Laura Hoffmann
Gryphon Rue
Max and Monique Burger
Steve Pulimood
Julia Fowler

Giorno Poetry Systems is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization and your gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law.

For information about making a donation, please contact 

Anthony Huberman at  
anthony@giornopoetrysystems.org

Legal Name
Giorno Poetry Systems Institute, Inc.

Address
222 Bowery, New York, NY 10012

Federal Tax ID
23-7397945

We truly appreciate your support.

Due to the age and character of the building, the space is not optimized for ADA accessibility and is located up a single flight of 20 stairs with handrails. If you have questions about access, please contact us in advance of the event, and we will make every effort to accommodate you.

Giorno Poetry Systems is situated in Lenapehoking, on the unceded territories of the Lenape peoples. We acknowledge that our existence, operating on the island of Manahatta, is a consequence of violent histories of settler colonialism bound up with unchecked exclusions, genocide, and erasures of many Indigenous peoples, ongoing to this day.