Patti Smith ... read a letter Ms. Smith once wrote to Robert Mapplethorpe. Lounging backstage beside trays of tofu skewers and fingerling potatoes, Jim Jarmusch studied a poem by Ms. Smith he ...

Jim Jarmusch, Scarlett Johansson, and Sean Penn came out to read poems. A big night! Bruce Springsteen stepped onstage near the end of the show, and he covered Patti Smith’s biggest hit ...