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Peter Anton Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010) was an American poet and actor. He was the long-time partner of Allen Ginsberg.
Jun 3, 2010 · Peter Orlovsky, who inspired Beat writers like Allen Ginsberg, with whom he had a romantic partnership for decades, and who wrote emotionally naked, loopy and occasionally luminescent...
May 30, 2012 · Peter Orlovsky (1933-2010) May 30, 2012. Peter Orlovsky, San Francisco, 1955. Photo c. Allen Ginsberg Estate. Thinking of Peter Orlovsky. It’s been two years to the day since he passed away. Vintage Peter. Allen’s photo above catches the glee and mischievousness in him.
May 30, 2021 · Remembering our old friend and Allen’s partner, Peter Orlovsky (1933-2010) who died on this day. Here ‘s another post (from back in 2013) – Celebrating Peter Orlovsky and another (from the following year) – Peter Orlovsky- Anniversary
Peter Orlovsky was born in 1933 to Oleg Orlovsky, a Russian immigrant, and his wife Katherine (née Schwarten), an aspiring writer, on Manhattan's Lower Eastside. He grew up in precarious circumstances in Northport on Long Island.
May 30, 2018 · “First harvest of 1958-1978 eternal decades poetry by Peter Orlovsky, born July 8, 1933, in the vanished Women’s Infirmary on Lower East Side, N.Y. Sometime ambulance attendant, farmer, house-cleaner, silkscreen handyman, newsboy, postal clerk, and instructor at Kerouac School of Poetics, he was discharged from military after telling ...
May 31, 2010 · Peter Orlovsky, longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg and a poet in his own right, died May 30 in Vermont of lung cancer. He was 76. Orlovsky met Ginsberg in San Francisco in 1954, before Ginsberg...
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Drawn from previously unpublished journals, correspondence, photographs and poems, Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words, begins as Orlovsky is discharged from the Army; follows the young man...
Dec 12, 2013 · Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky in San Francisco, 1955. In a letter from January 20, 1958, Ginsberg writes to Orlovsky from Paris, recounting a visit with his close friend and fellow beatnik, William S. Burroughs, another icon of literature’s gay subculture: Dear Petey:
