Deaf American Poetry
Contents
Editor’s Note
Introduction
John R. Burnet (1808–1874)
Emma
James Nack (1809–1879)
From The Minstrel Boy
The Music of Beauty
John Carlin (1813–1891)
The Mute’s Lament
Mary Toles Peet (1836–1901)
Thoughts on Music
To a Bride
Laura C. Redden (1840–1923)
My Story
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Angeline Fuller Fischer (1841–1925)
Scenes in the History of the Deaf and Dumb
To a Deaf-Mute Lady
Alice Cornelia Jennings (b. 1851)
A Prayer in Signs
George M. Teegarden (1852–1936)
The “Nad”
Gallaudet College
J. Schuyler Long (1869–1933)
I Wish That I Could Tell
Agatha Tiegel Hanson (1873–1959)
Semi-Mute
James William Sowell (1875–1949)
The Oralist
Dear Eyes of Grey
Howard L. Terry (1877–1964)
From The Old Homestead
On My Deafness
Alice Jane McVan (1906–1970)
And No Applause
Response
Earl Sollenberger (c. 1912–1947)
The Legend of Simon Simplefuss
Birds Will Sing
Reply to “Beware Lest People Think—”
Thoughts in a Pennsylvania Cornfield
To a Neglected Poet
Felix Kowalewski (1913–1989)
I Will Take My Dreams
Heart of Silence
Quasimodo May Not Dare
Loy E. Golladay (1914–1999)
On Seeing a Poem Recited in Sign Language
Silent Homage
Footnote to Anthropological Linguistics I
Footnote to Anthropological Linguistics II
Surely the Phoenix
Incident at the B.M.T.
Rex Lowman (1918–2001)
Bitterweed
Beethoven
Wingéd Words
Robert F. Panara (1920– )
On His Deafness
Lip Service
Idylls of the Green
Ars Poetica
Mervin D. Garretson (1923– )
for Bill Stokoe
to Doin Hicks
to an expert
deaf again
Dorothy Miles (1931–1993)
The Hang-Glider
Linwood Smith (1943–1982)
Percy
Mike
The Dream Song of the Deaf Man
Curtis Robbins (1943– )
The Rally That Stood the World Still
Solo Dining While Growing Up
The Promised World
Russian Roulette
Deaf Poet or What?
Clayton Valli (1951–2003)
A Dandelion
Pawns
E. Lynn Jacobowitz (1953– )
In Memoriam: Stephen Michael Ryan
Debbie Rennie (1957– )
As Sarah
Willy Conley (1958– )
A Deaf Baptism
The Miller of Moments
Salt in the Basement
Peter Cook (1962– )
Don Quoxitie Didnt Really
Attack the Windmill
Ringoes
Flying Words Project: Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner (est. 1984)
Wise Old Corn #1
Ode to Words
Katrina R. Miller (1965– ) and Damara Goff Paris (1965– )
How the Audist Stole ASL
Raymond Luczak (1965– )
The Audiologist
Spelling Bee 1978
Learning to Speak, Part I
Hummingbirds
The Crucifixion
Instructions to Hearing Persons
Desiring a Deaf Man
Abiola Haroun (1970– )
Deaf Mind
The Deaf Negro
Ode to a Silent World
Christopher Jon Heuer (1970– )
Bone Bird
The Hands of My Father
Visible Scars
Diving Bell
Koko Want
We Can Save the Deaf!
Kristi Merriweather (1971– )
It Was His Movin’ Hands
Be Tellin’ Me
Pamela Wright-Meinhardt (1971– )
Silent Howl
When They Tell Me . . .
John Lee Clark (1978– )
Story Actual Happen
Long Goodbyes
The Only Way Signing Can Kill Us
My Understanding One Day of Foxgloves
Kristen Ringman (1979– )
the ear gods
Calling Van Gogh
Alison L. Aubrecht (1979– )
ape-child
Conditional Wings
What My Teacher Taught Me
The Ghost in Yellowed Photographs
Hearing-Headed
Bibliography
John Lee Clark is a poet and writer in Burnsville, MN.
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