{"id":7341,"date":"2018-03-18T22:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T02:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=7341"},"modified":"2018-03-19T22:55:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T02:55:25","slug":"katy-didden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/katy-didden\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Didden"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7856\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7341-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/KatyDidden.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/KatyDidden.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/KatyDidden.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katydidden.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7370 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MG_5191.jpg?resize=238%2C159&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MG_5191.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MG_5191.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MG_5191.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MG_5191.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MG_5191.jpg?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MG_5191.jpg?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MG_5191.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MG_5191.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/>Katy Didden\u2019s<\/a> first book,\u00a0<em>The Glacier\u2019s Wake<\/em>, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucmo.edu\/pleiades\/lmwt\/\">Pleiades Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The poems in <em>The Glacier\u2019s Wake<\/em> invoke the large-scale tectonics of the natural world (craters, volcanoes, glaciers, and waterfalls).\u00a0 In many poems, the speakers are preoccupied with contemporary environmentalism, and often confront the contrary impulses of consumerism and conservation.<\/p>\n<p>In her new manuscript-in-progress, \u201cThe Lava on Iceland,\u201d she adopts lava as a persona, erasing a series of texts about Iceland (an Icelandic Edda, a survey of volcanism, interviews with Bjork) into lyric poems. To create the look of lava, she collaborates with graphic designer Kevin Tseng, who layers the erasures over photographs they solicit from friends and fellow Icelandophiles.<\/p>\n<p>Katy\u2019s poems and reviews appear in journals such as\u00a0<em>Poetry Northwest,<\/em> <em>Ecotone, Bat City Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Kenyon Review, Image, The Missouri Review, Smartish Pace, 32 Poems, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Sewanee Review,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Poetry.\u00a0<\/em>Her work has been featured on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.versedaily.org\/2009\/nest.shtml\">Verse Daily<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/poems.com\/poem.php?date=17226\">Poetry Daily.<\/a> She has received scholarships and residencies from The Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference, Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Hambidge Center, and the MacDowell Colony.<\/p>\n<p>After earning her PhD at the University of Missouri, she held\u00a0a Hodder\u00a0Fellowship at Princeton University (2013\u20132014), and taught as\u00a0a Visiting Assistant Professor in the MFA Program at the University of Oregon.\u00a0 She is currently an Assistant Professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>The books mentioned in the interview are: Carl Phillips, Wild is the Wind; Tomy Pico, Nature Poem; Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7377\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7377 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Berwick.jpg?resize=640%2C993&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Berwick.jpg?resize=660%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 660w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Berwick.jpg?resize=193%2C300&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Berwick.jpg?resize=768%2C1192&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Berwick.jpg?resize=696%2C1080&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Berwick.jpg?resize=1068%2C1658&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Berwick.jpg?resize=271%2C420&amp;ssl=1 271w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Berwick.jpg?w=1365&amp;ssl=1 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I. Photo: \u201cIceland.\u201d Maureen Horgan. 2014. II. Primary Text: Berwick, Isabel. \u201cBeyond the Wall in Iceland\u2019s \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 Locations.\u201d The Financial Times. February 14, 2014. III. Text and Photo Layout: Kevin Tseng IV. Erasure\/ Exposure poem: Katy Didden. Originally published in The Kenyon Review, Vol XXXIX, May\/ June 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7378\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7378 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Halfdanarson.jpg?resize=640%2C983&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Halfdanarson.jpg?resize=667%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 667w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Halfdanarson.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Halfdanarson.jpg?resize=768%2C1179&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Halfdanarson.jpg?resize=696%2C1068&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Halfdanarson.jpg?resize=1068%2C1640&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Halfdanarson.jpg?resize=274%2C420&amp;ssl=1 274w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Halfdanarson.jpg?w=1551&amp;ssl=1 1551w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Didden_Lava-on-Iceland_Kenyon-Submission_Halfdanarson.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I. Photo: \u201cIceland.\u201d Jennifer Leung. 2004. II. Primary Text: Halfdanarson, Gudmundur. Historical Dictionary of Iceland. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2008. III. Text and Photo Layout: Kevin Tseng IV. Erasure\/ Exposure poem: Katy Didden. Orginally published in The Kenyon Review, Vol XXXIX, May\/ June 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/KatyDidden.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listKaty Didden\u2019s first book,\u00a0The Glacier\u2019s Wake, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from\u00a0Pleiades Press. 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