sign language poetry
Signed artistic expression
Sign language poetry is artistic expression in a signed language that exploits the visual and spatial dimensions unavailable to spoken verse.
Poets use handshape, movement, facial expression, and the space around the body to create rhythm, rhyme, and imagery.
Where spoken poetry rhymes sounds, sign language poetry may rhyme handshapes or movements.
The ASL poet performed a piece about migration using sweeping directional signs.
- handsGripping limbs' extremities
- hand movementsMotions made with fingers
- gestureCommunicative body movement
- movementChange in position
- deafUnable to hear
deaf culture · ASL · expression · creative expression · visual · rhythm · storytelling · fingers · body · silence · performance · flow · emotion · space · physical presence · meaning · beauty · artistic
- accessible artsaudio description, wheelchair dance, audio guides
- Inclusive Artswheelchair dance, mouth painting, audio description, audio guides, described video
- physical performancemime, pantomime, acrobatics, contortion, juggling