5 articles
American Sign Language literature
American Sign Language literature: poetry, storytelling, drama, and folklore composed in ASL, also called Deaf literature; preserved on film since Veditz's 1913 campaign, canonized by Peters and Bauman, and published in signed form by the Deaf Studies Digital Journal.
Canadian Deaf Theatre
Canadian Deaf theatre: Deaf-led and mixed deaf-hearing theatre in Canada, from the Canadian Theatre of the Deaf to Deaf Crows Collective in Regina and Edmonton's SOUND OFF festival, using ASL, LSQ, and visual performance.
Clayton Valli
Clayton Valli (1951–2003), American Deaf linguist and ASL poet from Newburyport, Massachusetts; first doctorate in ASL poetics, author of Linguistics of American Sign Language, and pioneer of ASL rhyme and meter analysis.
Deaf Jam
Deaf Jam is a 2011 Judy Lieff documentary (PBS Independent Lens, November 3, 2011) following deaf Israeli-born teen Aneta Brodski of the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens as she performs ASL poetry and duets with hearing Palestinian slam poet Tahani Salah; 70 minutes, 2012 Japan Prize winner.
Ella Mae Lentz
Ella Mae Lentz (born 1954, Berkeley) is a Deaf American ASL poet and educator, known for "Eye Music," "The Dogs," and "Silence, Oh Painful," the Signing Naturally curriculum, and the Deafhood Foundation.