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Danika Stegeman
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Ablation | 11:11 Press (11/1/23); Pilot | Spork Press (2020)

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Danika Stegeman @danikastegeman.bsky.social · Feb 21
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.
psychoholosuite.bsky.social psycho-holosuite @psychoholosuite.bsky.social · Feb 21
After a 200 year break, Film Dada [da] is drugged back to life by @danikastegeman.bsky.social and her doggedly poetic fingering of Jim Jarmusch's 'Dead Man', a film that is 'slow, artistic and bad' according to ProJury on Imdb.

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Dead Man // Danika Stegeman
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Last night's Neon Night Mic at The Whistler was a hit!

📚📚📚

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

📷 @saramatson.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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neonpajamas.bsky.social
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
Reading at Chicago's The Whistler tomorrow, Wednesday, May 7. Doors at 6:00pm, reading starting promptly at 6:30pm until 8:00pm.
May 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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neonpajamas.bsky.social
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)
April 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
danikastegeman.bsky.social
( all these things are true things )
ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Apr 22
Listen to Episode 70: @danikastegeman.bsky.social (Of Relentlessness, Gendered Maximalism, and Harryette Mullen and the Mirrored Cinquain) here:

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"I CHART MOON PHASES, RELENTLESS. I PLAN FUNERALS, RELENTLESS. I WHITE-KNUCKLE MY TENDER CONTENTS THROUGH SNOWSTORMS TO REACH YOU, RELENTLESS." Danika Stegeman OF POETRY PODCAST, EP 70 Image backdrop: snow falling
April 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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From Episode 70 with @danikastegeman.bsky.social

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/997fb4a3
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
April 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
danikastegeman.bsky.social
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).
hanvanderhart.bsky.social Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Apr 15
I hope you hit play on this new @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social episode and bring @danikastegeman.bsky.social’s incantation of a poem “Relentless” into your day, letting it power you, fuel you, give you hope, do the work of poetry—which is to remind us of a light that also burns 💙📚🎙️🔥
April 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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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 🎉🎙️💙📚

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DANIKA STEGEMAN KARL KNIGHTS RACHEL MENNIES NATALIE SOLMER SARA MOORE WAGNER CHRISTEN NOEL KAUFFMAN NICOLE COOLEY FRANCES KLEIN OfPoetryPodcast.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
danikastegeman.bsky.social
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.
Swallowtail
Danika Stegeman reads "Swallowtail," as well as an excerpt from her second book Ablation.
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April 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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above/ground press (b. July 1993) : Canadian-made, owned and operated : everything printed in Ottawa, hand-folded + stapled in a basement on Alta Vista,
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...
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...
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April 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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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).

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Five Poems — Community Mausoleum
The gist of it is, well, dubious at best.
www.communitymausoleum.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
danikastegeman.bsky.social
see you real soon, Chicago...
neonpajamas.bsky.social Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Apr 4
The next Neon Night Mic is May 7!

The night promises to feature laughter, surrealism, tenderness, & erasure

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

🍸 @whistlerchicago.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
danikastegeman.bsky.social
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.
Danika Stegeman — Tyger Quarterly
Danika Stegeman   Dear Matthew, I told you David Lynch talks about DYNAMIC POWER in the video...
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March 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
danikastegeman.bsky.social
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.
psychoholosuite.bsky.social psycho-holosuite @psychoholosuite.bsky.social · Feb 21
After a 200 year break, Film Dada [da] is drugged back to life by @danikastegeman.bsky.social and her doggedly poetic fingering of Jim Jarmusch's 'Dead Man', a film that is 'slow, artistic and bad' according to ProJury on Imdb.

psychoholosuite.com/2025/02/21/d...
Dead Man // Danika Stegeman
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psychoholosuite.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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drekklin.bsky.social
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 :)
Text: Friday, February 21st at 8pm ET It's Copperhead Season: A collaborative reading series. Number 6 featuring Dom Witten + D.C. Klein
January 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
danikastegeman.bsky.social
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 )
Heart Rate Cento
Danika Stegeman reads "Heart Rate Cento," as well as an excerpt from her second book Ablation.
indianapublicmedia.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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/...
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…
sites.lsa.umich.edu
January 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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time travel back to a month ago when @hanvanderhart.bsky.social warmed my deep dark heart but i'd forgotten my Bluesky password...
November 19, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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If I’m
haunted, then I’m
loved.

Danika Stegeman LeMay
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.
October 10, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Danika Stegeman LeMay, from Ablation

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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.
October 11, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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psychoholosuite.bsky.social
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.

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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...
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May 23, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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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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July 5, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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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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"Amanuensis," by Danika Stegeman - theKalliope
A close reading of Danika Stegeman's poem "Amanuensis." Originally published in Mercury Firs 4.
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July 28, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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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...
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...
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January 10, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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psychoholosuite.bsky.social
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/
December 27, 2023 at 3:33 AM
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psychoholosuite.bsky.social
longest and messiest de-con-struc yet on the mad journey thru the hyper-realm that is 'Fourth Industrial Revolution Slut' by Karina Bush [includes sketches of Tony Blair as slug and Bill Gates as compromised yet all-seeing eye]

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January 10, 2024 at 2:38 AM