When Peter Cook and Clayton Valli take the stage to perform their American Sign Language poetry, they’ll be carrying on a tradition that’s already more than 100 years old. To be performed at Columbia ...

This adaptation of Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry collection is “every bit as urgent ... Dublin-based theatre company Dead Centre has ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Universal Drum is an experimental work in development that explores the ...

This short video shows us three different American Sign Language poems – two of which are less than a minute long. They give us an idea of poetry that is entirely out of most mainstream experience, ...

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Vol. 19, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2014), pp. 546-558 (13 pages) Despite research commenting on and analyzing signed poetry, there is little research exploring the ...

For many members of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, ASL poetry has become a major creative outlet to express the unique perspectives of being deaf in America. Similarly, slam poetry is an ...

This article argues that poetry written by nineteenth-century British and American deaf poets played an important role in the period’s sign language debates. By placing the publication of this poetry ...

The unique combination of American Sign Language and slam poetry will be featured at the third annual Def Meets Deaf Poetry Jam, hosted by the Lovin’ Cup Bistro at Park Point on Jan. 22. The event ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Poetry, like many art forms, allows people to express themselves in ways that they usually wouldn’t through typical writing or spoken word. And even though anyone can perform ...

HARTFORD — Deaf and hard of hearing students conjured flames and flowers with their fingertips Thursday at a poetry reading at Asylum Hill Congregational Church. Students from the American School for ...

Every year, students across the country memorize and recite poems for the Poetry Out Loud competition. But for deaf students, memorization isn’t the only challenge — they first have to translate the ...

Aneta Brodski is an Israeli-born teenager living in Queens, New York. She is passionate and driven and well liked by her high school classmates. Unique among her classmates, Aneta longs to fully ...