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, ...

High school senior Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris spent the first seven years of his life in silence. Born deaf, he didn’t have any formal way of communicating with his peers. “I would have classes and I ...

Ukrainian-American writer Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry collection is brought to the stage in this ‘enthralling’ production ...

Despite research commenting on and analyzing signed poetry, there is little research exploring the aims and intentions of the signing poets. This paper considers the producers of signed poetry, rather ...

Adam Wolfond’s poem is mostly written in declaratives, giving it a sense of confidence. As a nonspeaking autistic artist, prose writer and poet, Wolfond uses language as an invitation to witness and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Abstract This article discusses the role of eye gaze in creative sign language. Because eye gaze conveys various types of linguistic and ...

London’s Royal Court Theatre hosts an innovative new production that draws resonance from slippery real-world parallels ...