We reject antisemitism in all its forms, including when it masquerades as criticism of Zionism or Israel’s policies. We also recognize that, as journalist Peter Beinart wrote in 2019, “Anti-Zionism is not inherently antisemitic and claiming it is uses Jewish suffering to erase Palestinian experience.”
The surrealist blues poet is a musician of the subversive imagination, a truth-telling magician. Her poems are powerful and dangerous, like violets pushing through concrete to kiss the sun.
FIFTY ARTISTS. Three microphones. Two minutes each.With a program as unwieldy as a 2023 reprise of Jean Dupuy’s 1974 epic “Soup & Tart,” it’s really about what you remember, what sticks out. Earlier this month at MOCA Geffen, the poet Elaine Kahn showed up with her baby in arms. When it was her turn, she asked the audience for a diaper. A little commotion, people murmured and squirmed on their cushions, then a diaper was passed up front. Kahn squatted down and changed her kid, right there on the floor all in two minutes. That made an impression.Dupuy’s event, held at the Kitchen’s loft in TriBeCa
After writing Fun House into a tempest of grief two years ago, Hand Habits have returned to the spotlight with Sugar the Bruise. Read our profile on Meg Duffy here.