Adeena Karasick

Who is Adeena Karasick?

Adeena Karasick is a Canadian poet, performance artist, and essayist. Born in Winnipeg of Russian Jewish heritage, she has authored several books of poetry and poetic theory, as well as a series of parodic videopoems, such as the ironic "I Got a Crush on Osama" that was featured on Fox News and screened at film festivals, Ceci n'est pas un Téléphone or Hooked on Telephonics: A Pata-philophonemic Investigation of the Telephone created for The Media Ecology Association, "Lingual Ladies" a post-modern send-up of Beyoncé's "Single Ladies", and "This is Your Final Nitrous" a meditation on her experiences at the Burning Man Festival. Her eighth book, This Poem, which was released in August 2012, opened on the Globe and Mail Bestseller List for Winnipeg. It was also named one of the Top Five Poetry Books of 2012 by the The Jewish Daily Forward.