For many members of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, ASL poetry has become a major creative outlet to express the unique perspectives of being deaf in America. Similarly, slam poetry is an ...

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 ...

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).

As Kumar Singh takes the stage at The Venue in Orlando, some audience members are still finishing their conversations. Singh rallies the crowd and makes a plea for a round of applause. Most of the ...

American Sign Language is the third-most used language in the U.S. ASL has its own culture and art forms, and for many Deaf folks, ASL is about much more than just communication. Anita talks to Deaf ...

Standing in line on the sidewalk in front of the Nuyorican Poets Café is usually a time of sensory overload. The performance space, located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is best known for ...

Douglas Ridloff takes the stage ready to share one of his poems: “Symbiosis.” It isn’t a typical piece of slam poetry. Ridloff, who is deaf, is sharing all his work in American Sign Language with a ...

NEW YORK (CIRCA) -ASL Slam is an "open hands" event where members of the deaf community express themselves through poetry. Held at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, ASL Slam allows individuals to rap, ...

BATON ROUGE - Nationally recognized visual storyteller, Douglas Ridloff will be performing for a Baton Rouge audience Saturday, Feb. 29 at the Louisiana School for the Deaf. Ridloff is the owner, ...

There’s a lot more than drag-queen bingo and karaoke on the entertainment menu at Hamburger Mary’s; at the end of each month, the bar is transformed into a space where members of the deaf community ...