Garrison Keillor's Podcast

The first medical school for women opened in Boston, Massachusetts, on this date in 1848. It was started by Samuel Gregory who named it the Boston Female Medical College.

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“My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.”-- Natalie Clifford Barney, an American writer born in 1876 who lived an openly lesbian life in Paris.

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Today is the birthday of Ezra Pound (1885). He coined the term “imagism” for poetry which sought clarity of expression through the use of precise images.

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Today is the birthday Harriet Powers (1937). Folk artist and quilt maker she was born into slavery outside Athens, Georgia (1837). Her quilts hang in the Smithsonian and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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It's the birthday of Dr. Jonas Salk (1914), inventor of the polio vaccine. Released in 1955, the number of people infected by polio declined from 10,000+ a year to less than 100.

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Today is the birthday of poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) who said, "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

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On this day in 1900 Henry James gave writing advice to Edith Wharton, then a young novelist. "Be tethered in native pastures, even if it reduces [you] to a back-yard in New York."

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Novelist Anne Tyler celebrates her 80th year today. She is author of the Pulitzer Prize winning “Breathing Lessons,” and “Longlist,” winner of the Man Booker Prize.

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"I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer." --Poet Denise Levertov, born this day in 1923.

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Today is the 60th birthday of author Laurie Halse Anderson who writes books for children and young adults on challenging topics. Books such as “Speak” and “Chains”.

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