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 ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf will digitize and make publicly accessible more than 60 videotapes held in the RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive that document ...

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, ...

The Heart and Soul Poetry Club meets biweekly in Rupp 164 on Fridays at 4:00 p.m. Meetings are held on the first and third ...

Nationally renowned Deaf poets and performing artists are coming to UC Santa Cruz for Eye Music–a four-day festival created and performed in American Sign Language (ASL). Running from November 12-15, ...

BERKELEY HEIGHTS — Five teenagers gathered around a magazine clipping of a faceless man. Their challenge was to create a poem inspired by the image, and the ideas started flowing immediately. "His ...

MENASHA - It was all about language in the Fox Cities Saturday.People gathered in Menasha for the Flying Words Project.It's an American Sign Language poetry troupe comprised of deaf poet, Peter Cook, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract American Sign Language poetry has been described in some detail over the years (e.g., Klima and Bellugi 1979 and Ormsby 1995) and has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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