Danika Dinsmore

Between Sleeps:
The 3:15 Experiment 1993-2005
danika dinsmore & gwendolyn alley (eds.) 
ISBN: 0-9754042-4-5
$14 US (includes s/h)

Since 1993, a shifting menagerie of poets scattered across the globe has engaged in a unique experiment: to wake every August morning at  3:15am and write.  Spanning 12 years, between sleeps represents a fraction of this epic conversation. Contributors include the original 3:15 poets and many more from around the globe.

Her Red Book
en theos press, 2004
ISBN: 0-9754042-3-7
$12 US (includes s/h)

“My intent was simply to write at the beginning or end of the day as an observer of my own thoughts and actions.  It was an experiment in objectivity.” 

Triggered by “occasions,” Her Red Book challenged Danika to become a detachedcharacter in her own poems in order to discover larger truths inside every day occurrences. What emerged was a sometime surreal, sometime poignant 3^rd person story-telling.

Danika’s second collection of poetry introduces her readers to the angelic beingness of the world - before, during, and after a cathartic journey to Eastern Europe.

“Yes! All poems are love poems and near expressions of death. Danika Dinsmore’s angels have found a home in this wonderful book.
~Sharon Doubiago

" ... sinking into her poetry seems as effortless as breathing and as natural as flying in dreams."  ~www.getunderground.com

Begun as an experiment in collective dream consciousness, The 3:15 Experiment has continued every August since 1993. This anthology features the work of the experiment’s pioneers: Danika Dinsmore, Bernadette Mayer, Jen Hofer, and Lee Ann Brown.

“The 3:15 Experiment reads as a sort of dream diary… it comes closer to realizing André Breton’s goal of “the resolution of dream and reality into a kind of absolute reality” than almost anyone since Breton himself.”
                                                ~Nick Moudry, Slope

Danika’s definitive performance poetry CD features in-studio and live spokenword. Includes work form her two books as well as unpublished multi-voiced performances. Original music composed by musician Matthew J. Burgess.

I only listen to two CD’s in my car. One is Elvis and the other is Danika’s.
~Peggy (Danika’s Mom’s best friend)

“First on the Listening List, Top of the Reading Stack” Bob Holman's Essentials for 2001: The Best CDs and Books

Danika’s first book of poems is a playful collection of forms. From classic sestinas to experiments in ritual and consciousness, readers will never step in the same poem twice!

Traffic is fueled by a passionate love affair with the phenomenal world and the contradictions of our human condition within it.  Dinsmore’s poems are jammed with vivid things, situations, locations, demanding an energetic and witty response.” 
~Anne Waldman, Founder, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

HyeNA - Issue #2
Irregular Press, 1993
$6 US (includes s/h)

Features:
Dorothy Cosand, Danika Dinsmore, Anne Waldman, Lee Ann Brown,
Alice Notley, Max Regan,
Lee Christopher, Bernadette Mayer, Eleni Sikelianos and more ...