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 ...

Follow the rise of a young slam poet who finds her voice through American Sign Language. Deaf Jam is the story of Aneta Brodski's discovery of American Sign Language Poetry while a student at the ...

Abstract The article is an attempt at a close Bakhtinian reading of the ASL poem “Wise Old Corn #1” by Peter Cook and Kenneth Lerner of The Flying Words Project. As such, it proposes that referring to ...