Deaf Poetry Now!!! An Anthology.
Raymond Luczak, Editor.
142 pages.
6 x 9 trade paperback.
ISBN: 978-1-941960-22-6
$20.00

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Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of 38 books, including The Language of Home: Stories (Gallaudet University Press, 2025), Animals Out-There W-i-l-d: A Bestiary in English and ASL Gloss (Unbound Edition Press, 2024), Oh Yeah: A Bear Poetry Anthology (Bearskin Lodge Press, 2024), and A Quiet Foghorn: More Notes from a Deaf Gay Life (Gallaudet University Press, 2022). Prior to becoming the acquisitions editor for the Yooper Poetry Series, he edited Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Modern History Press, 2024). His next title will be [Exeunt.] (Beauty School Editions, 2026). His work has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and an inaugural Zoeglossia Poetry Fellow, Raymond Luczak lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Now and then some communities need to pause and ask themselves just where they are now as a people. One of the best ways to find such answers is through poetry being composed right now. What are they saying in their poems?

Given the intense media interest in the signing community and the Deaf experience these days, it feels timely to seek out such possible answers from d/Deaf poets sharing their own perspectives. In this anthology, they spotlight the joys and frustrations of the d/Deaf experience with a wide variety of poems and, yes, voices.

Charlie Ainsworth * Karen Christie * S. Leigh Ann Cowan * Linda Drattell * Martha Ellen * Kristen Harmon * Abby Haroun * Alex Hawkins (Talk With Hands) * J.S. Hossen * Michael Isaacs * Lilah Katcher * Sarah Katz * Jer Loudenback * Raymond Luczak * Thomas Muething * Cheryl Nichols * Kris Ringman * Curtis Robbins * Prudence Shaw * Maverick Smith * Lori Stambler-Dunsmore * William T. Vandegrift, Jr. * Jacob Waring * Mel Whalen.