Patti
I was looking for a reflection paper that I wrote last year about the reading that I attended at 92Y when Patti Smith was there. The premise of the reading was to have authors from around the world read sections of their work. The whole night there was an empty chair with a spotlight on center stage. Towards the end when she gave a speech, she knelt down by the chair and started thanking it (at this point I had no idea who she was or what she was doing). She then stated that the chair represented all of the journalists and writers in other countries that are sitting in jail for writing something that they firmly believed in. She went on to talk about the power in having a voice and being able to use it freely. It was extremely moving.
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