In light of Deaf History Month, which runs from March 13 to April 15, members of the Deaf community have been celebrating their rich culture and history. Deaf history is filled with accomplishments, ...

In an essay collection titled, "Where I Stand," writer John Lee Clark discusses cochlear implants, ASL poetry, trying to get rid of a backlog of Braille magazines, and the joys of the Twin Cities' ...

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, ...

At the world's only deaf university, Gallaudet University in Washington DC, a radical rethink of what it means to occupy and design space is underway: it's called deaf architecture. From deaf space to ...

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The scholar of religion Albert Blackwell has remarked of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” that its “chorales are not dramatic music, but they impart musical drama.” Hymn verses appear five times in the ...

Aneta Brodski is an Israeli-born teenager living in Queens, New York. She is passionate and driven and well liked by her high school classmates. Unique among her classmates, Aneta longs to fully ...

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 ...

Every year, students across the country memorize and recite poems for the Poetry Out Loud competition. But for deaf students, memorization isn’t the only challenge — they first have to translate the ...

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 ...

Mustafa Alabssi loves to perform, it's his favourite thing to do. The high school student recently moved to Canada from Syria. Now he's learning how to craft poetry in his third language — American ...

In the opening poem of Ilya Kaminsky’s epic modern fable, “Deaf Republic,” a narrator in the U.S. begs forgiveness for living happily while other people’s houses are bombed in a faraway war. “We ...