{"id":803813,"date":"2020-02-04T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=947673"},"modified":"2020-02-04T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:36:52","slug":"patti-smith-to-receive-pen-america-literary-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/patti-smith-to-receive-pen-america-literary-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Patti Smith to Receive PEN America Literary Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/patti-smith-PEN-literary-award.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/patti-smith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_patti-smith\" data-tag=\"patti-smith\">Patti Smith<\/a> will be the recipient of the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/literary-gala\/2019-pen-gala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">PEN America Literary Service Award<\/a>. The musician and poet will be awarded at the organization\u2019s annual gala, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on May 19th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">PEN America<\/a> is an organization that unites literature and human rights while protecting creative expression; the annual award is given to an individual making an impact on culture and the human condition. Previous recipients include Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Margaret Atwood. In addition to Smith, the organization will also honor Frank A. Bennack Jr., Executive Vice Chairman of Hearst. (Tables for the event are on sale now, individual tickets will become available in March.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all of Patti Smith\u2019s thrilling incarnations \u2014 rock goddess, poet, eloquent witness to the bohemian New York of her youth \u2014 she has testified to the transformative power of literature in her own life, and used her stardom to encourage reading and writing in the legions who revere her,\u201d PEN President Jennifer Egan said in a statement. \u201cA polestar of my own teenage years, she set an example of badass female artistry, coupled with deeply principled humanity, that I\u2019m still trying to live up to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith has a slew of West Coast performances lined up in March, with shows at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles on March 6th and two nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco on March 8th and 9th. After an evening at Seattle\u2019s Paramount Theater, she\u2019ll make a stop in Washington, DC before heading to Australia and Europe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/patti-smith-pen-literary-service-award-947673\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patti Smith will be the recipient of the 2020 PEN America Literary Service Award. The musician and poet will be awarded at the organization\u2019s annual gala, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on May 19th. PEN America is an organization that unites literature and human rights while protecting creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 17:41:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}