Featured in the film are Deaf poets Bernard Bragg, Peter Cook, Patrick Graybill, Ella Mae Lentz, and others. Flying Words Project is at once imaginative, experimental, and intense. The recordings capture performances by Deaf poets such as Robert Panara, Clayton Valli, Debbie Rennie, Peter Cook, Ella Mae Lentz (pictured on the left performing "Sign is Like a Tree") and others performing and analyzing ASL literature works at … Flying Words Project. Speaking, signing, writing, body language, and facial expression are "ordered now to talk" in deaf poet Peter Cook's literacy Kenny Lerner is the voice of Flying Words Project and has been writing with Deaf poet Peter Cook since 1986. And growing up, I never had any Deaf role models until I was 16 years old, and for the first time I saw a Deaf poet, Peter Cook, and his linguistic expression just blew my mind sky high, such that when I landed, I had this realization about what my thoughts were about sign language being so simple and for communication only. DVD. Deaf American Sign Language poet Peter Cook presents three dimensional imagery while collaborator Kenny Lerner's spoken words allow the hearing in the audience to literally see the ASL image and become lost in the movement. As a Deaf person, he realized that ASL was not only a way for him to communicate, but was an artistic language. The 2021 Sign Fest features Peter Cook, a deaf storyteller and poet. Peter Cook The link to "Peter Cook" is to the wrong "Peter Cook." Thursday, March 25 3:30pm ASL Poetry with Peter Cook 4:00pm Are Asians Too Invisible? Watch an ASL poem based on Deaf poet Ella Mae Lentz's life journey. Newer Post Older Post Home. It then examines how Deaf World Arts subverts audism and cultivates a ‘third-ear’, followed by a discussion of British Deaf performance artist Aaron Williamson's work called ‘Phantom Shifts’. The handshape is Perf. He loves to tell stories to his son. Poetry Periodicals Biographies Interviews Publication Timeline. A very famous Deaf Poet is Peter Cook, who toured with his Dead Poetry show called “The Flying Words Project” (“Flying words project,” 2016). Flying Words Project is an American Sign Language poetry troupe comprised of Deaf Poet Peter Cook and hearing coauthor Kenny Lerner. Flying Words was featured at the Peoples Poetry Gathering in New York City and at the thirty-sixth Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. —2008. Charles Krauel, A Profile of a Deaf Filmmaker. Poet, performer and director of ASL SLAM Douglas Ridloff, founders of The Flying Words project Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner, and poet and editor John Lee Clark will share their original works. Most of the lectures we have had in class have very informative as well as interesting but for the first time, Cook’s lecture allowed Peter has traveled extensively around the country and aboard with Flying Words Project to promote ASL Literature with Kenny Lerner since 1986. The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox. When Douglas Ridloff was a sixteen-year-old teenager growing up in Queens, his mind was blown when he saw Peter Cook, an American Sign Language (ASL) poet who is Deaf, perform for the first time. Peter Cook is a contemporary deaf ASL poet. Then, in 1984, he attended a poetry workshop Allen Ginsberg gave at the school with the Deaf poet … Peter Cook. An interpreter will be provided for our hearing audience. Bahan and Baumen kicked off the afternoon with a brief history of signed languages from the ancient world to today. Teachers, parents, and other adults working in some educational capacity with a K–12 student (or students) who is deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind are invited to register for a free DCMP account. There is a wealth of Deaf art, poetry, stories, theater, media, and even jokes that teach Deaf Culture (most of which are not in a tangible form). He has traveled extensively around the country and abroad with Flying Words Project to promote ASL Literature since 1986. (Gally) 6:00pm The Black Drum (ASL musical/Deaf theatre) Friday, March 26 3:00pm Zoom Magic Show (for Deaf children) 5:00pm The Black Drum (ASL musical/Deaf theatre) 6:00 ASL Poetry and Sign Songs 7:00pm ASL Social The Deaf highly value the literature and art of their culture. Deaf Culture art and literature is how the Deaf share their values with future generations – their values of sign language and deafness, Deaf education, Deaf experiences, Deaf pride, and more. the poets themselves are determining the development of the art form. Dawn Sign Press. November 7, 2015 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Kenny and Peter juxtapose imagery you can see in crea