America is made up of hundreds of unique minority populations, and one is the Deaf Community. Our country borrows its principal spoken language from our one-time colonial power, England. Howeve ... [+]
Creative Nonfiction
5 min
Celeste Bonfanti is a playwright and teacher of Deaf /hard of hearing children in New Jersey, USA. An internship in Deaf Theatre at the Rochester Institute of Technology inspired “Snow Angel," and a lifelong love affair with ASL inspired "A Uniquely American Language."
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America is made up of hundreds of unique minority populations, and one is the Deaf Community. Our country borrows its principal spoken language from our one-time colonial power, England. Howeve ... [+]
The meep of the alarm dragged me from the warmth of my quilt cocoon and smack into Monday morning. I had to bat at it four times before it finally stopped and I found my glasses. 6:00 A.M. and ... [+]