Danika Stegeman

thanks again, Ben such a fun reading!

Last night's Neon Night Mic at The Whistler was a hit!

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Thanks to the six readers: @danikastegeman.bsky.social, Scott Daughtridge DeMer, @simonemuenchie.bsky.social, @parkeryoung.bsky.social, Hedgie Choi, & Donato Loia

📷 @saramatson.bsky.social

Reading at Chicago's The Whistler tomorrow, Wednesday, May 7. Doors at 6:00pm, reading starting promptly at 6:30pm until 8:00pm.

Will we be seeing you tomorrow?!

@danikastegeman.bsky.social / @parkeryoung.bsky.social / @simonemuenchie.bsky.social / Scott Daughtridge DeMer / Hedgie Choi / Donato Loia

@whistlerchicago.bsky.social

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The next Neon Night Mic is in two weeks! So excited for this stacked lineup

🎤 @danikastegeman.bsky.social
🎤 @parkeryoung.bsky.social
🎤 @simonemuenchie.bsky.social
🎤 Scott Daughtridge DeMer
🎤 Hedgie Choi (@uwiscpress.bsky.social)
🎤 Donato Loia (@bside-editions.bsky.social)

you are so welcome, thank you 💖💖💖

( all these things are true things )

ON RELENTLESSNESS: "I find the act of writing or creating to be a part of that relentlessness—| wanted the writing to be relentless too, to refuse to stop, to refuse to be small, and to refuse to not contain everything that it could possibly contain, because we're complex people and the art is complex as well." DANIKA STEGEMAN, EP 70

From Episode 70 with @danikastegeman.bsky.social

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/997fb4a3

sincere warm maximal thanks to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for their generous conversation + @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social space. you can listen to this episode (and then go listen to ALL OF THEM EVER).

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DANIKA STEGEMAN KARL KNIGHTS RACHEL MENNIES NATALIE SOLMER SARA MOORE WAGNER CHRISTEN NOEL KAUFFMAN NICOLE COOLEY FRANCES KLEIN OfPoetryPodcast.com

Working on some incredible episodes right now, and tomorrow airing a GORGEOUS Episode 70 with @danikastegeman.bsky.social! Of Relentlessness, Gendered Maximalism, and Harryette Mullen and the Mirrored Cinquain 🎉🎙️💙📚

ofpoetrypodcast.com

Swallowtail Danika Stegeman reads "Swallowtail," as well as an excerpt from her second book Ablation.

the last of 4 segments from ABLATION ( @1111press.bsky.social ) aired on The Poets Weave yesterday: indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/s... thanks again to producer Luann Johnson + everyone at TPW for a wonderful experience + for including my poems on your rad program.

the above/ground press postal increase sale, above/ground press (b. 1993) doesn’t usually offer any sales during this time of the year, but with the thirty percent increase recently via...

above/ground press (b. July 1993) : Canadian-made, owned and operated : everything printed in Ottawa, hand-folded + stapled in a basement on Alta Vista,
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Five Poems — Community Mausoleum The gist of it is, well, dubious at best.

Happy to have five (5!) poems in Coma during NaPoWriMo. Shoutouts to @shannacompton.bsky.social (from whom I borrow a line) and @danikastegeman.bsky.social (from whom I wrote a poem after).

www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal...

see you real soon, Chicago...

Danika Stegeman — Tyger Quarterly Danika Stegeman   Dear Matthew, I told you David Lynch talks about DYNAMIC POWER in the video...

2 epistles from THE BOOK OF MATTHEW are in the newest issue of Tyger Quarterly: tygerquarterly.com/Danika-Stege... read the whole issue it's a stellar line up as usual. if you want a link to the video I reference w/David Lynch's immaculate handwriting go to my website i link to it in the pub. post.

thanks eternal to @psychoholosuite.bsky.social for publishing this + sequencing the plain old text i sent w/perfectly placed film stills. projury must be soulless.

Text: Friday, February 21st at 8pm ET It's Copperhead Season: A collaborative reading series. Number 6 featuring Dom Witten + D.C. Klein

looking forward to reading with Dom! get excited with me about this collaborative reading in February. Virtual!

Thanks for inviting me and Dom to participate in this @danikastegeman.bsky.social :)

Heart Rate Cento Danika Stegeman reads "Heart Rate Cento," as well as an excerpt from her second book Ablation.

listen to me read "Heart Rate Cento" + excerpts from ABLATION's title sequence on the radio: indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/h... sincere thanks to segment producer Luann Johnson and the writers + musicians whose words compose the cento. ( get the book @1111press.bsky.social )

The Allure Is the Masquerade: An Interview with Karen Rigby After many years, poet Danika Stegeman is grateful to reconnect with her former teacher and mentor Karen Rigby to talk about Rigby’s latest poetry collection, Fabulosa (Jackleg Press, June 2024). T…

i got to talk to my friend Karen Rigby about her book FABULOSA ( @jacklegpress.bsky.social 2024 ) in an interview for Michigan Quarterly Review, read it here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/01/...

time travel back to a month ago when @hanvanderhart.bsky.social warmed my deep dark heart but i'd forgotten my Bluesky password...

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If I'm haunted, then I'm loved. Radio on. Bulb flickering. A washcloth folded square. Dark matter doesn't emit or interact with light. It surrounds us even if we can't see it.

If I’m
haunted, then I’m
loved.

Danika Stegeman LeMay

omgggg thank you, Han. like, yes, i finally signed back on to Bluesky....

I set fires, relentless. I cradle a tequila bottle and ghostride hotel elevators floor to floor, relentless. I shatter glass, relentless. I piece shards, relentless. I cull the fold, relentless. I live in an open field, relentless. I'll repopulate your wasteland with native flora and fauna, relentless. I strip gristle and fat from still-warm flesh, relentless. I knew if I wanted anything good in my life l'a have to make it myself, my mom says, and I understand that she gave me what allowed me to survive her, relentless. If the text must be corporeal, I must insist on its being vaginal, relentless. I must insist on cunnilingus, relentless. If we have to name the animals and other totems, I'll have to insist on gender neutral and/or feminine pronouns, relentless.

Danika Stegeman LeMay, from Ablation

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[De-Con-Struc] Ablation // Danika Stegeman LeMay + + [Note: it's just Danika Stegeman now, but this book was written/published when there was a LeMay part so that's why it's there in the title] + After centuries of self-excavation self-exhibition St...

2nd de-con-struc of a @danikastegeman.bsky.social book, this time 'Ablation' [published by @1111press.bsky.social ] and its many-faced 'pocket-mother', its many-faced Danika, its clinging phobia of the ugly heart machine + its beautiful blue on the front cover.

psychoholosuite.com/2024/05/23/d...

De-con-struc of 'Crimes of the Future' of Seberg of Joan of Arc of 'Love Lies Bleeding' of 'Personal Shopper' of Kristen Stewart of short hair long hair of the psyche inside the orange rind of fragment-art guest written by @danikastegeman.bsky.social

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I offer a close reading of @danikastegeman.bsky.social's poem "Amanuensis" (published in Mercury Firs' recent issue). I'm especially interested in the relationship between poet and inscriber of poem. And the expressive potential Stegeman finds in that between-space.

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Olivia Muenz - Healthcare, The Systems That Kill Us, and Vibing Straight Through Listen to this episode from green_space on Spotify. Machines, bureaucracy, health care, and the systems that kill us / TENS units / illness / Taoism, Buddhism, and the future / 5 year plans as antithe...

green_space is back w/ @oliviamuenz.bsky.social
answering 10 questions supplied by Season 1 guests @divinetailor.bsky.social , Dana Venerable, Alison Cardon, Mike Coarrao, @danikastegeman.bsky.social , Tim Liu & Kenning JP García. open.spotify.com/episode/6Uke...

Opening subs for Film Dada [da]

If you've got an idea for a hybrid/experimental piece about any film not already on the psycho h site, send it my way.

Don't worry about formatting or logic.

For inspiration, you can read all the pieces done so far here: psychoholosuite.com/film-dada-da/