Poetry
Arad has published four books. In his first book, “The Nigger”, he formed a style that he called "Kimo" and defined as "a Hebrew adaptation of the Japanese Haiku": it consists of three lines of 10, 7, and 6 syllables. It usually describes one frozen scene that has no movement in it, and in practice the content of the poems is close to Senryū. In 2004 he published "Paintings and poems 2000-2003" with Tal Esther Gallery, Shadurian. and In 2009 he published the poetry book "Guns and Credit Cards" with Plonit publishing house. As an author, Arad published the book "The Israeli Dream" (Xargol-Am Oved) in 2010 and many short stories.
Arad’s poem “The owl” which deals with the destruction of the Israeli urban city centre in favor of giant shopping malls, interlacing elements of ancient eastern Gods, was a part of Michal Helfman’s work in the Venice Biennale 2003. In 2007, a translation was published in the USA at "In Our Own Words", an anthology of young writers. He was one of the editors of two poetry anthologies: "Aduma" (the red) of socialist contemporary poetry, "Latzet" (go out) against the 2009 war in Gaza and "The Revolution Songbook" following the social protest of summer 2001. As the publisher of Maayan, he edited several poetry books of young writers.
Arad is one of the founders of the "Free Academy" group and editor with Joshua Simon of Maayan magazine Israeli periodical for poetry, literature, and ideas and of New&Bad Art Magazine. In July 2009, his poem, "The Night's End Anthem" was performed by the Tel Aviv philharmonic orchestra by Zubin Mehta with music of Ella Sheriff for 100 years to Tel Aviv. Along with Mati Shemoelof, Aharon Shabtai and Almog Behar, Arad is a key member of Guerrilla Tarbut, a group of Israeli poets and artists striving to promote social and political causes through poetry and music.
In the end of July 2009, Arad participated in the San Francisco International Poetry Festival and had a surprising show with the influential musician Jonathan Richman. Some of Arad's poems where translated to Arabic and where published in Lebanon and Egypt. In March 2012 he curated the exhibition Iran, in opposition to Israeli government plans to go to war with Iran in order to prevent war with Iran. .
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