Adeena Karasick
For Adeena Karasick, Multimedia Is the Message
Adeena Karasick tries to beat information overcrowding at its own game, merging a whirlwind of techie lingo, urban vocabulary, Yiddishisms and more.
National Poetry Month: Kabbalah and the Eagles
Poets eat defiance for breakfast — rule-breaking, language-bending, Houdini-like wriggling out of cliché’s confines comes with the territory. In the works of poet-performer-professor Adeena Karasick such poetic freedom-seeking is manifest by dancing between complex academic concepts, pop culture, and shtick. She oscillates from poetics to social commentary in a manner that is darkly funny, parodic, over the top, and wonderfully challenging. Just see her infamous “I got a Crush on Osama” YouTube video, and check out some of the audience comments that went along with it.
Jews, Poetry and the Avant-Garde
Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week Jake Marmer writes about “Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture.”