Patti Smith talks about 'Bread of Angels,' her latest book. Smith wrote the book over a 10-year period, chronicling her ...

Rabih Alameddine’s blend of family comedy and wartime tragedy, “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother),” ...

At the Chicago Theatre, Patti Smith and her band tore into “Horses” from top to bottom, and 50 years on, it’s still ...

“Just Kids” is a memoir of Smith’s early years in New York and her relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. They ...

The Intentions of Thunder” includes poems from Smith’s nine collections, as well as new and previously uncollected poems that ...

“Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine,” Smith sang on Saturday over the slow piano chords of keyboardist Tony Shanahan ...

The indomitable punk poet — who was born in Chicago and briefly lived in Logan Square when she was young — dedicated “People ...

But this is Patti Smith, so nothing will be conventional or usual, at least within the narrow scope of the definitions of ...

What a magnificent night of live music, centered on the 1975 debut that is regularly — and rightfully — considered to be one ...

In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the ...

If you were wondering what the poem meant, I have no idea,” Patti Smith offered, after reading Rimbaud’s “Genie” on Monday ...