The singer-songwriter wisely builds her memoir around her creative 1970s in New York — but other periods get weighed down in ...

The Godmother of Punk shares details about her personal life and her work more intimately than she did in ‘Just Kids’ and ‘M Train.’ ...

Her poetic and immersive fourth memoir 'Bread of Angels' is both a prequel and a sequel to the bestselling 'Just Kids' ...

The years go by, but the album "Horses" still evokes the same emotion. On Monday, October 20, 2025, Patti Smith gave the ...

Patti Smith’s Just Kids was voted a best book of the 21st century. Her new memoir covers her whole life, charting deep love, ...

Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, ...

Patti Smith returns to the Olympia in Paris on Monday, October 20 and Tuesday, October 21, 2025, to celebrate the 50th ...

Godmother of punk rock and former metro Detroiter Patti Smith made an unexpected showing last nigh on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where she performed her ...

This article appears in the December 2025 print edition with the headline “Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention.” ...

Having sought out the punk-rock icon, he introduced himself and said, “Hi Patti, I was told that you might want me to help you out?” To which she handed him her guitar and said, “Tune this”.

As she marks the 50th anniversary of the "Horses" album, Smith collaborated with Jacques Marie Mage on a limited-edition ...