Poet, performer, and "queen of punk" Patti Smith made her mark in the disparate worlds of punk, rock and roll, and poetry, with seven albums, six books of poetry, and a world-renowned performing style. "Three chord rock merged with...

Patti Smith (born Patricia Lee Smith on December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter and poet. She was influential in the birth of the punk movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called "Punk's Poet Laureate"[1] and "Godmother of Punk"[2] she...

PITTSBURGH PATTI SMITH ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM Any number of important musicians and writers have produced interesting visual art. Victor Hugo made drawings, Auguste Strindberg painted landscapes, Arnold Schonberg did portraits. And, of course, Antonin Artaud's drawings are famous. Rock icon Patti...

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Rocker Patti Smith said Friday that her concern for the hundreds of men imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay compelled her to record a song about a former detainee."I feel responsible as an American citizen," Smith told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from New York....

On Friday, Sept. 14, at the Beacon Theatre, songwriter and singer Patti Smith gave her annual show in remembrance of her husband, MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith, who died of a heart attack in 1994. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was joined onstage...

Patti Smith is in trouble. She's caught in a classic double bind—accused of selling out by her former allies and of not selling by ner new ones. Maybe she's just too famous for her own good. Habitues of the poetry vanguard that provided her initial panache, many of whom mistake her proud press and modest sales for genuine stardom, are sometimes envious and often disdainful of her renown as a poet, since she is not devoted to the craft of poetry and they are. Music-biz pros both in and o...

The writer Grace Paley once talked in an interview about the fact that many women missed the sense of boyhood when they were children, "the freedom and excitement of boyhood," and that girls would try "to invent some kind of risky, boyhood life for [their] girlhood—which creates imagination, which means imagination." Patti Smith—poet and rock-and-roll star—accepted her boyhood life right from the beginning. "Female. feel male," she wrote in her ...

Patti Smith is the hottest rock poet to emerge from the fecund wastes of New Jersey since Bruce Springsteen. But Smith is not like Springsteen or anybody else at all. Springsteen is a rocker; Smith is a chanting rock & roll poet….