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Series

Caption: Claudia Quigg
112 Pieces

In less than four short minutes, Claudia Quigg gives parents a healthy dose of encouragement, as she thoughtfully examines the issues facing today’s families.

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

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.


Latest Pieces

Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
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
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
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
Caption: Claudia Quigg
We hope that every child has a safe home where he is loved and cared for, provided with every need. But for about 400,000 American children each y...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
Caption: Claudia Quigg
When the world sees our children, it sees them as they are at this moment and in this environment, through a narrow lens. Their teacher at school ...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:44
Caption: Claudia Quigg
News buzzed around a friend’s family tree that the second baby to be born would be another little girl. I had heard about the excitement, so when ...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:39
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Sweet Will recently celebrated his fourth birthday. Before his party, he could hardly contain his excited anticipation about opening his presents.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Claudia Quigg
One story from my annals of parenting shortcomings involves a pair of runaways. The scoundrels in question were my two daughters, ages three and f...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:41