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 ...

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 ...

Plus, pop music and sign language. By Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger, Alan Blinder and Aaron Boxerman Big Ocean, a boy band whose members are deaf or hard of hearing, has ...