Listen to Kirie read from her story ‘Congregation of Loons’ as broadcast on National Public Radio. Link to audio broadcast. See Kirie’s bio in Quiddity.
Kirie Pedersen’s Congregation of Loons was published inVol. 4 No. 1 of Quiddity, 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.
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.
