Garrison Keillor's Podcast

The Nineteenth Amendment was originally drafted by Susan B. Anthony. On June 4, 1919 it passed the Senate, sending it to the states for ratification. Fifteen months later it was ratified, giving American women the right to vote.

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"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." -- Allen Ginsberg (1926)

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Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was born on this day in 1840. A risky and bold writer, his works are said to have a “painterly” quality that lends them well to becoming films.

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One hundred years ago today in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the thriving black neighborhood of Greenwood was destroyed, its population massacred by an angry white mob. No one was ever prosecuted.

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This Memorial Day has us remember Walt Whitman on his birthday with a poem written for civil war soldiers and remembering Whitman’s service caring for them on the battlefield.

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It was on this day in 1431 that Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy in Rouen, France. A pesant girl, who heard the voice of god, and rose to lead an army.

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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations." – John F. Kennedy, born on this day in 1917.

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“Youth is given. One must put it away/like a doll in a closet,/take it out and play with it only/on holidays.” May Swenson, born this day in 1913.

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Today is the birthday of Julia Ward Howe (1819). A writer, a suffragist, and an abolitionist. Best known for the lyrics to “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

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Today marks 70 years since the birth of Sally Ride (1951-2012). The first American woman in space, who remembered space as “The most fun I will ever have in my life.”

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