Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program

27/11/2020

We are ever-grateful to the writers who give contemporary literature its quiddity—the many voices who make it what it is.

When we made the call for submissions for the forthcoming special collection, MMXX CE: 2020 in Poetry, we hoped for considerable variety and have found it in abundance.

Thank you to all who answered the call. We are grateful and humbled by your work, your talent, your minds, and your hearts.

While still in deliberation over the final selections for the print edition, we are honored to have the opportunity to consider such work!

Thank you…Unending thanks to all the writers, readers, poets, and listeners this world has held. You are a marvel. ❤️

Photo credit: Dmitry Osipenko

14/10/2020

In case you missed Taylor Supplee's pitch-perfect reading of his poem, "Séance, with reliquary," here it is. You won't want to miss another one—We sure don't!
https://cocolit.org/q-12-2/f/taylor-supplee-%7C-s%C3%A9ance-with-reliquary

If you have a poem that possesses this kind of effect both on the page and out loud, we definitely want to read it. Our submission deadline is EOD tomorrow: cocolit.org/quiddity

Taylor Supplee, Donald Everett Axinn Fellow, is a gay poet originally from the Midwest. He earned his MFA from Columbia University where he serves as the Lucie Brock-Broido Teaching Fellow. A semi-finalist for the 92Y Discovery Award in Poetry in 2019, his poems are forthcoming and have appeared in Hotel Amerika, Midwestern Gothic, The Moth, Rattle, SLAB Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

13/10/2020

Two fabulous poems by Sandy Marchetti!
And only 2 days left to send work!

Marchetti’s “The Book” and “Fall at Lake Ontario“ are featured in our current volume and can be read and listened to here: https://cocolit.org/q-12-2/f/sandra-marchetti-%7C-two-poems. Don’t miss this remarkable poet reading her work at the link. ❤️

You can send work for Quiddity’s upcoming print volume, 2020 in Poetry, here: https://cocolit.org/quiddity.

Marchetti is the author of Confluence, a full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Sandra’s poetry appears widely in Poet Lore, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, River Styx, and elsewhere. Her essays can be found at Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, Pleiades, and other venues. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the College of DuPage in the Chicago area.

Fall at Lake Ontario

13/10/2020

3 days left to submit your work! Our current call for submissions for the forthcoming print volume—MMXX CE: 2020 in Poetry—is here: https://cocolit.org/quiddity.

Send poems that remind us our bone centers are liquid, like this one did—from Michael T. Young, featured in Quiddity’s current issue:
https://cocolit.org/q-12-2/f/michael-t-young-%7C-diagnosis?blogcategory=Quiddity+12.2

Young’s third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water (Terrapin Books), was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award. He received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. His poetry has been featured on Verse Daily and Writer’s Almanac and in such journals as Atticus Review, Gargoyle, One, RATTLE poetry magazine, and VPR: Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Be sure to listen to Young reading his work at the link. You can read more about the poet here: michaeltyoung.com.

Not bronchitis, not asthma, but an ailment of memory

10/10/2020

Congratulations to Fiona Sze-Lorrain on her forthcoming poetry collection, Rain in Plural, from Princeton University Press!

Quiddity was honored to feature Fiona's work in volume 11, when editor Lisa Higgs interviewed the poet about the nuances of translating image and silence, as well as poetic sincerity and the spirit.

Fiona is a poet, translator, editor, and zheng harpist. She is the author of three previous poetry collections, including The Ruined Elegance, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has also translated more than a dozen books of contemporary Chinese, French, and American poetry. She lives in Paris.

You can read more about Rain in Plural here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691203560/rain-in-plural

10/10/2020

We are delighted to feature the work of Sara Moore Wagner, 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation winner and author of Hooked Through (Five Oaks Press). Read and listen to “Ball and Chain" in Quiddity’s current issue: https://buff.ly/34Ez8Nv

Quiddity’s call for submissions for the forthcoming print edition—MMXX CE: 2020 in Poetry—is here: https://cocolit.org/quiddity