Quiddity

Series produced by NPR Illinois

Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program 

Quiddity is a highly produced literary radio program with a companion international (print) literary journal. Quiddity is produced and published by Illinois Public Radio’s hub-station, NPR member and PRI affiliate WUIS, and Benedictine University.

The journal publishes exemplary prose and poetry from emerging and established writers around the world. The radio program features interviews with select authors, best-selling and burgeoning. It also includes readings of new, original works by poets and writers.

Quiddity is a highly produced literary radio program with a companion international (print) literary journal. Quiddity is produced and published by Illinois Public Radio’s hub-station, NPR member and PRI affiliate WUIS, and Benedictine University.

The journal publishes exemplary prose and poetry from emerging and established writers around the world. The radio program features interviews with select authors, best-selling and burgeoning. It also includes readings of new, original works by poets and writers.

Quiddity, by definition, means “the real nature or essence of a thing; that which makes it what it is.” Quiddity seeks not only work from a wide and diverse pool of individuals but also to bring those voices to a wide audience of listeners and readers.

Words have an exquisite way of linking—sometimes across time, culture, and understanding—writer and reader in a fugitive embrace, and Quiddity is honored to play a part in that sharing.

As such, Quiddity has deep regard for and is profoundly grateful to its listeners, readers, and contributing artists, without whom our charge would be without quiddity. Thank you for sharing in the fugitive embrace. Hide full description

Quiddity is a highly produced literary radio program with a companion international (print) literary journal. Quiddity is produced and published by Illinois Public Radio’s hub-station, NPR member and PRI affiliate WUIS, and Benedictine University.

The journal publishes exemplary prose and poetry from emerging and established writers around the world. The radio program features interviews with select authors, best-selling and burgeoning. It also includes readings of new, original works by poets and writers.

Quiddity, by definition, means “the real nature or essence of a thing; that which makes it what it is.” Quiddity seeks not only work from a wide and diverse pool of individuals but also to bring those voices to a wide audience of listeners and readers.

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25 Pieces

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From Split This Rock in Spring of 2014, Quiddity sits down with poet Tim Seibles

  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 18:13
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Featuring writers from the 2014 Pygmalion Literary Fest LitCrawl, recorded live at The Esquire Lounge in Chapaign, IL. Readers in this episode incl...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 20:07
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Features an in depth conversation with Akashic Books Senior Editor Ibrahim Ahmad discussing the independent press’ evolution over the last two deca...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 16:26
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Featuring novelist Eric Shonkwiler and work from Quiddity issue 7.2. While Eric has lived and worked in every contiguous US Time zone, the Ohio na...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 18:05
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Featues a conversation with The Pygmalion Literary Festival coordinator Caleb Curtis about Pygmalion’s decade long evolution from a music event to ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 17:32
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An interview with MMA fighter and poet Carlo Matos, plus work from issue 7.1

  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 17:17
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This episode we highlight contributors to issue 7.5 including an interview with National Book Award Finalist, poet Matt Rasmussen.

  • Added: May 07, 2014
  • Length: 16:47
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Finding Place in the Placelessness: Justin Hamm and Christina Olson talk with assistant editor John McCarthy about their experiences as editors for...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 15:53
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Finding Place in the Placelessness: Chad Simpson and Monica Berlin talk with Assistant Editor John McCarthy about the under-appreciated, rich cultu...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 16:27
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Jacob Saenz, Erika Sanchez, and Celeste Mendoza sit down with Quiddity‘s Amy Sayre Baptista in Part II discussion of Latin@ poetics in regards to t...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 14:57
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Features selections from past issues of Quiddity which include poems read by Andrew Kozma, Kate Mohler, and Susana Lang.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 16:51
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Ruben Quesada and Norma Cantu sit down with Quiddity‘s Amy Sayre Baptista in Part I discussion of Latin@ poetics in regards to their place in The A...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 17:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Missouri’s first Poet Laureate, Walter Bargen, sits down with Quiddity‘s Assistant Editor, John McCarthy, to discuss the importance of silence in p...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 15:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Features selections from recent issues of Quiddity, including “Sympathy for the Wendigo” by Tim Kahl, two poems from Kate Asche, as well as “A Leg ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 17:24
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A National Poetry Month celebration featuring original works of poetry read by the authors—includes Jonathan Veach’s “Songsmithing,” Donelle Dreese...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 18:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Have you ever had an unruly pet? How about an exasperated spouse--fed up with that unruly pet--who issues a final ultimatum: either the pet goes, o...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2013
  • Length: 19:44
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Features a discussion with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert about the impact of climate change on enviromental health, human health, and human ri...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:35
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Features part two in a two-part series on the enduring capacity of Moby-Dick, with a focus on one man's particular devotion to Melville's greatest ...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features part one in a two-part series on the enduring capacity of Moby-Dick, with a focus on one man's particular devotion to Melville's greatest ...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1