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Athletes: Madge Syers
Season 5 Episode 225
Madge Syers (1881-1917) was the first female figure skater to compete against men and women. She often competed in pairs with her husband. She was th…
1 year, 9 months ago
Introducing: Nike On Air
Welcome to a series of conversations featuring some of the world’s greatest athletes. Over the course of two weekends, hear from the world’s fastest …
1 year, 9 months ago
Wordsmiths: Masako Togawa
Season 5 Episode 224
Masako Togawa (1931-2016) was a crime novelist, singer, and club owner. She created a chanson salon called the Blue Room, which catered to LGBTQIA+ a…
1 year, 9 months ago
Wordsmiths: Maria Irene Fornés
Season 5 Episode 223
Maria Irene Fornés (1930-2018) was one of the leading figures in the Off-Broadway movement in New York, often called the one of the “greatest and lea…
1 year, 9 months ago
Wordsmiths: Katherine Lee Bates
Season 5 Episode 222
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) was a poet, professor, and social reformer. She authored the poem “America the Beautiful,” which was adapted into a s…
1 year, 9 months ago
Wordsmiths: Edythe Eyde
Season 5 Episode 221
Edythe Eyde (1921-2015) was an author, songwriter, and activist. In 1947, she published the first-ever lesbian publication in North America – at a ti…
1 year, 9 months ago
Wordsmiths: Etel Adnan
Season 5 Episode 220
Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a poet, novelist and painter, once named “arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today…
1 year, 9 months ago
Wordsmiths: Marguerite Duras
Season 5 Episode 219
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) was a pioneer of autofiction and one of the most widely-read French writers in the postwar era. She specialized in blurr…
1 year, 9 months ago
Wordsmiths: Suniti Namjoshi
Season 5 Episode 218
Suniti Namjoshi (1941-present) is a poet, fabulist and mythologist born in India. Her short, playful fables and myths challenge sexism, racism and ho…
1 year, 10 months ago
Wordsmiths: Paula Gunn Allen
Season 5 Episode 217
Paula Gunn Allen (1939-2008) was an American poet, literary critic, activist, professor, and novelist. With works that often explored Indigeneity and…
1 year, 10 months ago