Celebrating 50 years of her first album ‘Horses,’ with which she revolutionized music and literature while remaining true to ...

Smith was a poet before she became a musician. As a sickly girl in southern New Jersey, her romantic heroes were all poets: She pored over Robert Louis Stevenson, William Blake, and, later, Rimbaud.

In truth, Smith has realized most of her options. There are a dozen books of poetry, including 1999's "Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Notes and Reflections." ...

Patti Smith responded Saturday to Taylor Swift‘s recent mention of her in the title track of her album, The Tortured Poets Department.. Swift name-drops Smith, a rock poet and artist, alongside ...

Patti Smith hit the 1970s music scene with an ecstatic blend of poetry and rock. She credits that signature sound to lessons in free-verse defiance from Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan.

Patti Smith says she was first attracted to several of the dozen cover songs that make up her latest disc, “Twelve,” because they have both a social and spiritual component. But it becomes ...

Legendary musician Patti Smith performs her song “My Blakean Year” in the Democracy Now! studio and talks about the influence of poet William Blake (1757–1827). We also air a recording of ...

Patti Smith is a proud member of Taylor Swift's "Tortured Poets Department.". The poet and singer thanked Swift on Instagram after being named-dropped on the "Cruel Summer" pop star's latest album ...

Patti Smith and her band with Tony Shanahan on bass and Jay Dee Daugherty on drums play at Walt Disney Concert Hall as part of the LA Phil’s month-long Power To The People! festival on Friday ...

Patti Smith is no stranger to literary giants, having hung out with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, but the godmother of punk has a soft spot for the children’s poetry of Robert Louis ...

Punk legend Patti Smith, 77, thanks Taylor Swift for the shout-out on “The Tortured Poets Department” alongside Welsh poet Dylan Thomas: “I was moved.” ...