BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:178997@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260815T185833Z DTSTART:20260915T193000Z DTEND:20260915T210000Z SUMMARY:Patti Smith: An Evening of Songs and Stories DESCRIPTION:Literary Arts is pleased to present New York Times bestse lling author Patti Smith for An Evening of Songs &\\; Stories\\, fe aturing a live performance and conversation about her new memoir\\,  Bread of Angels.  \\nAbout the book: \\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith\\, author of th e National Book Award winner Just Kids\\nA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME\\, NPR\\, THE NEW YORKER\\n“God whispers through a crease in the wallpape r\\,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. A post–W orld War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex where we ent er the child’s world of the imagination. Smith\\, the captain of her lo yal and beloved sibling army\\, vanquishes bullies\\, communes with the k ing of tortoises\\, and searches for sacred silver pennies.\\nThe most in timate of Smith’s memoirs\\, Bread of Angels takes us through her teena ge years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Ri mbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative role models as she begins to write poetry then lyrics\\, ultimately merging both into the songs of iconic r ecordings such as Horses\\, Wave\\, and Easter.\\nShe leaves it all behin d to marry her one true love\\, Fred Sonic Smith\\, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores\\, Michi gan. Here\\, she invents a room of her own\\, a low table\\, a Persian cu p\\, inkwell and pen\\, entering at dawn to write. The couple spend night s in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start a family.\\nA series of profound losses mark he r life. Grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her c hildren\\, rebuilding her life and\\, finally\\, writing again—the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagin ation to transform the commonplace into the magical\\, and pain into hope . In the final pages\\, we meet Smith on the road again\\, the vagabond w ho travels to commune with herself\\, who lives to write and writes to li ve.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/portland-or/events/ patti-smith-an-evening-of-songs-and-stories-2026-09-15 LOCATION:literary-arts.org URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/portland-or/events/patti-smith-an-evening-of-songs-and-stories-2026-09-15 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR