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 ...
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, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's spoken word without spoken words—ASL SLAM is an open space for poets to perform their work in American Sign Language (ASL).
(KUTV) — Sarah Gubler isn’t shy. In fact, she’s becoming a little bit famous among her classmates at the Jean Massieu School for the Deaf in Salt Lake City. Gubler is deaf and blind, and those aren’t ...
Poet Douglas Ridloff creates American Sign Language poetry and performs at ASL Slam, a creative outlet for deaf people.Oct. 24, 2017 © 2026 NBCUniversal Media, LLC ...
Raymond Antrobus and Zoë McWhinney have been shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prizes for Poetry; this is the first year the prize has been open to poems performed in British Sign Language. Deaf poet ...
In feature films the deaf have made for exotic yet sympathetic characters. From Jane Wyman as the saintly eponymous innocent in “Johnny Belinda” (1948) to Marlee Matlin’s Oscar-winning turn as a ...
Two Bulgarian friends, one of whom grew up with deaf parents, have launched an online video series with sign-language interpretation of poetry and films. It's meant to raise the visibility of the deaf ...
Recent poetry books of note: INDEX OF WOMEN, by Amy Gerstler. (Penguin Poets, paper, $20.) Gerstler’s witty collection channels various characters — the tooth fairy, a lost doll — to celebrate “shrewd ...