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 woman Tatyana McFadden, breaking star Sunny Choi, b...
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Wordsmiths: Masako Togawa
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+ artists and music enthusiasts during a time of legal...
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Wordsmiths: Maria Irene Fornés
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 least acknowledged” playwrights of her generation. As ...
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Wordsmiths: Katherine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) was a poet, professor, and social reformer. She authored the poem “America the Beautiful,” which was adapted into a song and adopted as an American anthem. Katharine wa...
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Wordsmiths: Edythe Eyde
Edythe Eyde (1921-2015) was an author, songwriter, and activist. In 1947, she published the first-ever lesbian publication in North America – at a time when doing so was illegal. While she published p...
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Wordsmiths: Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a poet, novelist and painter, once named “arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today.” Later in life, she received widespread acclaim f...
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Wordsmiths: Marguerite Duras
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 blurring the lines between autobiography and imagination...
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Wordsmiths: Suniti Namjoshi
Suniti Namjoshi (1941-present) is a poet, fabulist and mythologist born in India. Her short, playful fables and myths challenge sexism, racism and homophobia. She’s written over thirty books, includin...
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