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I was listening to Minnesota Public Radio today as Cathy Wurzer was interviewing the newly-named Minneapolis Poet Laureate, Heid E. Erdrich. At the end of the interview, Heid was asked if there is another poet whose work she appreciates.

Heid: “Oh my gosh, John Lee Clark, a poet who was on the short list for the national book award… [he] is a DeafBlind poet and a genius with the English language. I love his book _How to Communicate_. And he’s a Minnesotan!”

Cathy: “He is! And we had him on the show, and that was the most interesting interview I’ve done in my 30+ years as a journalist. It was amazing, Heid. Oh, great choice!”

It was a delightful surprise that I thought our Twin Cities ASL community might appreciate knowing! As of right now (10:45p on 12/19), the transcript for the interview isn’t up yet but should be by tomorrow. I’ve typed up the relevant comments, and I’ll post the link below.

Adrean Clark, Sharon Clark, Lee Clark, Keith Clark, Paula Kay Ozuna-Clark

Minneapolis' new poet laureate shares her work and her plans for 2024 Heid Erdrich was announced Tuesday morning as the first person to fill the role.

Congratulations on becoming the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf's new CEO, Star Grieser! We're rooting for you!

2021 RID CEO Announcement About RID's New CEO Please join us in welcoming Star Grieser, CDI, as RID's newest CEO. Please click here to view this message in English! “Interpreters have a major impact because of communication access. And the quality of that communication access is important.” -Star Grieser

Don’t know how Hanukkah began? Lael tells the story. 🕎

Hanukkah Presentation by Lael Eberwein Zornoza, 3rd grade He is humbly honored to give the Hanukkah Presentation to the Deaf school today in this morning, the first day of Hanukkah 5781 (2020).

The importance of preserving indigenous signed languages!

What the Survival of the Hawaiian Language Means to Those Who Speak It A Smithsonian curator recalls his own experience learning the native tongue

Thank you for sharing this, Becky.

What is Dinner Table Syndrome and Why Does It Matter? I’ve always believed that enjoying meals as a family on a regular basis is super important, and is perhaps the most important part of our day. Coming from a multilingual family where we communicate in American Sign Language and English, with two Deaf parents and a hearing sister, our table was ful...

On Dec 10, David left 21ºF in Minneapolis and a couple hours later arrived in San Diego where the temperature was a balmy 75ºF! Can you convert those temperatures to Celsius and calculate the difference?

Join us via Zoom for “Interpreting educational numbers: Percent, place, position—math & science numbers,” and we will talk about interpreting typical categories of numbers in math and science.

Tuesday, September 29, 2020
6:00–9:00p Eastern time
0.3 CEUs Professional Studies
$40.00

Information and registration can be found at
bit.ly/EvansNumbers

Brought to you by Bridge Communications, hosted by the Willie Ross School for the Deaf, CEU processing sponsored by MassRID.

Children of Deaf Adults (codas) from across the world created this music video of “Ain’t No Mountain,” and it’s beautiful! ♥️

International Coda Soul Choir Children of Deaf Adults from all over the world coming together, in their native sign, to brighten your lives during these dark times. I do not own the right...

Stop and think what you might do, how you might communicate or just navigate the world if you were DeafBlind in the middle of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Perspective | They are deaf and blind, and social distancing has now taken their ability to touch Members of the DeafBlind community, many of whom rely on touch to communicate, describe feeling increasingly isolated, losing interpreter services and fearing what will happen if they end up in the hospital.