In the School for the Deaf, it’s giggles and laughs as students in high school English classes have started learning about poetry. Our ASL poets are replicating work of well-known ASL poets and story tellers to combine handshapes, facial expressions, and body movements, to tell stories in fun and creative ways. Unlike traditional English-spoken verse, ASL poetry transforms "phonetic nuances into visual ones and one-dimensional words into three-dimensional shape[s]."In these pictures, students are copying "Rooster", a poem by deaf poet and artist, Ian Sanborn. Through the ASL poetry lessons, students learn about alliteration, rhyme, personification, and metaphors.
