1978 Ella Mae Lentz: Poetry in the Palm of Your Hand
Channel: RIT Libraries
Date: 2019-03-08

Summarized by Dr. Karen Christie. This video is from the Ruth C. Hoffman collection. In this film by Ella Mae Lentz, she performs twelve different pieces including translated poems from English to ASL as well as original poems created in ASL. Ella includes brief descriptions prior to each performance to guide viewers. 

Visual description: In this black and white video, a woman with chin-length brown hair and glasses introduces Ruth who has organized this workshop. An interpreter is on the side interpreting remarks. Ruth thanks everyone for their work. She is wearing glasses and has curly brown hair and introduces Ella Mae Lentz.   Ella Mae Lentz comes up to start her presentation and has curly chin-length brown hair. She is wearing a long-sleeved striped sweater.  She is in front of a plain background. Digitization of this video was supported by the NTID President's Office and the NTID Department of Creative and Cultural Studies. Captioning supported by CLIR.  For more information, please go to the Deaf Studies Archive finding aid link URL: https://archivesspace.rit.edu/repositories/2/resources/955

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