Episode 14 [Interview 5] Featuring DANIKA STEGEMAN

Post Poet Pop, Episode 14 features the poet Danika Stegeman. Danika is not only prolific and driven when it comes to her poetry practice but in her work, she does not shy away from the uncomfortable or the difficult. She engages in new formalism on her own—some of which are blended into existing conceptualist approaches (assemblage, erasure, etc.) and some of which she creates originally. Today, we are going to discuss her first book, Pilot, as well as her second book which is set to be released in November of this year—Ablation. The first book, Pilot, is an erasure of episode transcripts of the television show Lost, and speaks from a common source through borrowed tongues; Danika writes in Pilot, “I’m a shooting range. // Can you hear me shivering?” The second book you will hear from—Ablation—is an elegy to Stegeman LeMay's mom, who died in 2020, and it contains not only poems, but hybrid texts and images to form an artifact of healing. She earned an MFA from George Mason University and lives in Minneapolis. Go to DanikaStegeman.com to learn more about her work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.