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Quiddity is a multimedia arts venue featuring an international literary journal (print and audio), a public-radio program, and a visiting writer and artist series. Each is produced by Benedictine University in partnership with NPR member/PRI affiliate WUIS, Illinois Public Radio’s hub-station.
The print journal, published semi-annually, features exemplary prose, poetry, and artwork from emerging and established writers and artists around the world. International submissions are encouraged.
The public-radio program and the visiting writer and artist series feature select authors and artists. Contributors to the print journal are invited to contribute to the audio journal and may have their work featured on the public-radio program.
The term quiddity means “the real nature or essence of a thing; that which makes it what it is.” Because those who participate in the arts—crafters, readers, viewers, listeners—are its quiddity, the venue Quiddity seeks not only work from a wide and diverse pool of individuals but also to share that work with a wide audience.
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Quiddity is a multimedia arts venue featuring an international literary journal (print and audio), a public-radio program, and a visiting writer and artist series. Each is produced by Benedictine University in partnership with NPR member/PRI affiliate WUIS, Illinois Public Radio’s hub-station.
The print journal, published semi-annually, features exemplary prose, poetry, and artwork from emerging and established writers and artists around the world. International submissions are encouraged.
The public-radio program and the visiting writer and artist series feature select authors and artists. Contributors to the print journal are invited to contribute to the audio journal and may have their work featured on the public-radio program.
The term quiddity means “the real nature or essence of a thing; that which makes it what it is.” Because those who participate in the arts—crafters, readers, viewers, listeners—are its quiddity, the venue Quiddity seeks not only work from a wide and diverse pool of individuals but also to share that work with a wide audience.
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Quiddity has been broadcasting since 2008
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A Conversation with Dan Guillory
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Dan Guillory is the author of Wartime Decatur (Arcadia Press, 2006), Images of America (Arcadia, 2004), When the Waters Recede (Stormline Press, 1996), The Alligator Inventions (Stormline, 1992), Living with Lincoln (Stormline, 1989), as well as over 500 articles, poems, and book reviews. He holds a PhD in American Literature from Tulane University, was a Fulbright Lecturer for the US State Department, and has won awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Library Association, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
His latest book, The Lincoln Poems (Mayhaven, 2008)—a collection of original works—encompasses Abraham Lincoln’s life as well as his lifelong relationship with verse and his deep appreciation for diction. Quiddity editor Joanna Beth Tweedy spoke to the poet about the book and the...
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INTRO:Quiddity is produced by Benedictine University in partnership with Illinois Public Radio’s hub-station, WUIS, and hosted by Joanna Beth Tweedy, editor of Quiddity’s international literary journal. The term “quiddity” means “the real nature or essence of a thing; that which makes it what it is.” As a literary program that features conversations with today’s poets and authors, Quiddity speaks with those who are the essence of contemporary literature—those who are the quiddity of today’s literary world. Quiddity also features those same poets and authors reading their latest work, bringing you contemporary literary voices from around the globe. This episode of Quiddity turns its attention to the literary essence of Abraham Lincoln. Join host Joanna Beth Tweedy and Lincoln scholar and poet Dan Guillory for an exploration of the life of Lincoln as poet and through poetry. Guillory’s work includes Living with Lincoln and The Lincoln Poems. Original poetry from the sixteenth president is also featured.
OUTRO:You’ve been listening to Quiddity, produced by Benedictine University in partnership with Illinois Public Radio’s hub-station, WUIS. You can access Quiddity programming as well as the international literary journal at quiddity.ben.edu. Or contact the show at quiddity@ben.edu. As always, Quiddity remains profoundly grateful to its contributing participants and listeners, without whom its charge would be without quiddity.
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