The unique combination of American Sign Language and slam poetry will be featured at the second annual Def Meets Deaf Poetry Jam, hosted by the Lovin’ Cup Bistro at Park Point on Feb. 6. The event ...

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 ...

On Friday, April 27, Governor Livingston High School’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program in Berkeley Heights will host a viewing of “Deaf Jam,” a documentary about a deaf teen poet, followed by an ...

Ilya Kaminsky, poet and author, reads poetry in Barnum Hall last night as part of a program sponsored by the Department of English. Kaminsky, deaf since the age of four, was born in Odessa, in the ...

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Aneta Brodski, a deaf teen living in New York City, discovers the power of American Sign Language poetry. As she prepares to be one of the first deaf poets to compete in a spoken-word slam, her ...

Happy Friday Streeters! This weekend’s event calendar has a little something for everyone: Drinks and discussion, an arboretum tour, entertainment packed craft festival, nightime church tour and award ...