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 ...

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).

The unique combination of American Sign Language and slam poetry will be featured at the second annual Def Meets Deaf Poetry Jam, hosted by the Lovin’ Cup Bistro at Park Point on Feb. 6. The event ...

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 ...

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, ...

(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 ...

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, ...

Deaf Jam is a documentary you can’t take your eyes off of. If you do, you’re probably missing the point. American Sign Language (ASL) poetry must be seen, not heard. But instead of opening with an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...