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 ...

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 ...

Juneau-based poet Emily Wall has been working on a book of birth poems for six years. She collected birth stories from as many different people as she could, asking participants to recall specific ...

Geoffrey Brock’s anthology of twentieth-century Italian poetry offers the risk of a counter-eloquence. Poetry, said Robert Frost, is what is lost in translation. Consider the opposite formulation: ...