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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kari Morgan, 16, is 'feeling shocked and very happy!' SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- For the second straight year, a student from Oregon School for the Deaf is Oregon’s Poetry Out Loud champion -- and this ...

Signed poems use carefully chosen language to show deaf poets’ view of the world. The visual language of space and movement shows deaf people’s visual experiences. The powerful image is the main point ...

At the world's only deaf university, Gallaudet University in Washington DC, a radical rethink of what it means to occupy and design space is underway: it's called deaf architecture. From deaf space to ...

The Commission on the Filipino Language, or Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), has launched a poetry contest in sign language intended to promote Filipino deaf culture through literature. In an ...

In the opening poem of Ilya Kaminsky’s epic modern fable, “Deaf Republic,” a narrator in the U.S. begs forgiveness for living happily while other people’s houses are bombed in a faraway war. “We ...