Ketem
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Ketem ("stain" in Hebrew) is a free quarterly poetry magazine in newspaper form, published in 10,000 copies – making it the largest poetry magazine ever in Israeli history.
Ketem is edited by two young poets based in Tel-Aviv: Oded Carmeli and Yehuda Vizan, and is designed in its avant-garde vision by the artist Tal Iungman.
Upon the release of its first edition in December of 2006, Ketem and its three founders draw a sensational media attention, and were covered by all four major national Israeli newspapers, as well as television and radio.
Ketem is characterized by its mocking of the Israeli literary establishment, its satire, critique and hard-line aesthetic principles, that were also published as a manifesto called Kaha ("like so", also: "without a reason" in Hebrew).
The intro from the Kaha manifesto, taken from Ketem's second issue:
"in light of Hebrew poetry's state of decay and its turning from a form of art – that one can value and criticize – to "creative writing", there comes a need to take a stand, in a world that has no stand".
