Editing Patti Smith (section)

===Early performances===
In 1969, Smith went to Paris with her sister, and started [[Street performance|busking]] and doing performance art.<ref name="Arista bio"/> When Smith returned to Manhattan, she lived at the [[Hotel Chelsea]] with [[Robert Mapplethorpe]]. They frequented [[Max's Kansas City]] on [[Park Avenue]], and Smith provided the [[spoken word]] soundtrack for Sandy Daley's art film ''Robert Having His Nipple Pierced'', starring Mapplethorpe. The same year, Smith appeared with [[Jayne County]] in [[Jackie Curtis]]'s play ''Femme Fatale''. She also starred in [[Anthony Ingrassia]]'s play ''Island''. As a member of the [[Poetry Project]], she spent the early 1970s painting, writing, and performing.

In 1969, Smith also performed in the [[one-act play]] ''[[Cowboy Mouth (play)|Cowboy Mouth]]'',<ref name="RS bio">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pattismith/biography |title=Patti Smith: Biography |access-date=February 4, 2008 |encyclopedia=The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll |year=2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071212083500/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pattismith/biography <!--Added by H3llBot--> |archive-date=December 12, 2007}}</ref> which she co-wrote with [[Sam Shepard]]. The published play's notes call for "a man who looks like a coyote and a woman who looks like a crow". She wrote several poems about Shepard and her relationship with him, including "for sam shepard"<ref>"for sam shepard," in ''[[Creem]]'' Sept. 1971 [http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/poetry/forsam.htm link] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015153208/http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/poetry/forsam.htm |date=October 15, 2009 }}</ref> and "Sam Shepard: 9 Random Years (7 + 2)", that were published in ''Angel City, Curse of the Starving Class & Other Plays (1976)''.

On February 10, 1971, Smith, accompanied by [[Lenny Kaye]] on electric guitar, opened for [[Gerard Malanga]], which was her first public poetry performance.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?fid1=25407 |title=Patti Smith Fights the Good Fight – Timeline |access-date=December 5, 2008 |last=Khanna |first=Vish |date=May 2007 |work=Exclaim! |location=Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124001953/http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?fid1=25407 |archive-date=January 24, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/patti-smith-first-gig-show-1971-st-marks/ | title=Patti Smith reminisces about her first-ever gig in New York | date=August 22, 2020 }}</ref>

Smith was briefly considered as lead singer for [[Blue Öyster Cult]]. She contributed lyrics to several Blue Öyster Cult songs, including "Debbie Denise", which was inspired by her poems "In Remembrance of Debbie Denise", "Baby Ice Dog", "Career of Evil", "[[Fire of Unknown Origin]]", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini", on which she performs duet vocals, and "Shooting Shark". At the time, she was romantically involved with [[Allen Lanier]], Blue Öyster Cult's keyboardist.  During these years, Smith was also a rock music journalist, writing periodically for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' and ''[[Creem]]''.<ref name="auto"/>