Peter Orlovsky
Poet
Poet and actor who was most their for being the life partner of Beat generation icon Allen Ginsberg. Orlovsky's published works include Dear Allen, Ship will land Jan 23, 58; Lepers Cry; and Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs.
After serving in the U.S. Army, he attended Columbia University. He met Ginsberg while working as a painter's model in San Francisco.
He taught poetry at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and was the recipient of a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
He was the partner of Allen Ginsberg from 1954 until Ginsberg's death in 1997.
He appeared in Couch, a 1965 film produced by artist Andy Warhol.