Overview
- His wife, Claudia Summers, announced on Instagram that he died on Dec. 25 at 3:33 p.m., following a stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis in 2022.
- Poe’s The Blank Generation (1976), co-directed with Ivan Kral, captured early punk acts at CBGB and Max’s Kansas City.
- His career included features such as Unmade Beds, The Foreigner, Subway Riders and Alphabet City, the public-access show TV Party, and music videos for Run-DMC and Anthrax.
- Reporting cited a 2020 dispute in which Kral took control of The Blank Generation and other titles, re-editing them and removing Poe’s credit.
- Tributes from peers including Jim Jarmusch and Kim Gordon appeared on his Instagram, and survivors include his wife and his daughter, Emily.