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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The poetry of allegory seems to require a style which risks bare-bones sparseness, patiently avoiding idioms or historical references which might tip the reader off too quickly to any one ostensible ...

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 ...

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