Annual Report for the Giorno Poetry Systems AIDS Treatment Project (1991)

New York City: Giorno Poetry Systems (poster, mailer), 1991.
12" x 9" (closed); 18" x 24" (open), single sheet, printed both sides, twice folded, unaddressed.

An Annual Report mailer for the AIDS Treatment Project, as released by Giorno Poetry Systems (New York City) in 1991. This remembers Cookie Mueller, John Sex, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ethyl Eichelberger, Howard Brookner, Terry Clifford, and others who died from AIDS-related illness.

One page contains two images with William S. Burroughs:

• a photo of James Grauerholz, John Giorno, William S. Burroughs, Carl Apfelscnitt [sic, Apfelschnitt], and Ira Silverberg, taken by Kate Simon in Lawrence, Kansas on 17 August 1987
• a photo of Keith Haring, William S. Burroughs, and John Giorno, taken by Kate Simon in Lawrence, Kansas on 16 August 1987

When unfolded, there is also a photo of William S. Burroughs with Howard Brookner, taken by Ray Charles White in New York City on 8 February 1984.

This unaddressed copy was acquired from Jim McCrary, poet, former office manager to Burroughs, and friend of Burroughs, during a visit to Lawrence, Kansas.