Peter Orlovsky
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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.
Early life and career
Orlovsky was born in New York City's Lower East Side, the son of Katherine (née Schwart) and Oleg Orlovsky, a Russian immigrant. He was born in poverty and was forced to drop out of Newtown High School in his senior year so he could help his impoverished family. He began working as an orderly at Creedmoor State Mental Hospital, now known as Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital.
Orlovsky was drafted into the United States Army for the Korean War at the age of nineteen years old in 1953. Army psychiatrists ordered his expulsion from the front to a San Francisco hospital as a medic. He then transferred to Columbia University.
Allen Ginsberg was a model for the painter Robert La Vigne in San Francisco in December 1954. Orlovsky had no intention of being a poet before meeting Ginsberg. Ginsberg was dating Sheila Williams Boucher at the time, but the relationship was broken to Orlovsky. Orlovsky had a sexual relationship with Boucher at the time. Ginsberg and Orlovsky considered their relationship to be a "marriage sealed by promises." It was a gay affair in part because Orlovsky was bisexual.
Orlovsky began writing in 1957, with Ginsberg's encouragement, when the pair were living in Paris. Orlovsky, who was accompanied by other beat writers, travelled extensively throughout the Middle East, Northern Africa, India, and Europe for many years. He also assisted in the creation and performance of Ginsberg's 1970 LP Songs of Innocence and Experience, which was based on William Blake's poetry collection of the same name. Orlovsky was Ginsberg's lover in an open relationship until Ginsberg's death in 1997.
Orlovsky began teaching poetry at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, in 1974. In 1979, he was granted a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to continue his artistic pursuits.