Writers@Grinnell Welcomes John Lee Clark, Tuesday, Feb 28., at 8 p.m. in Rosenfield Center, Room 101

John Lee Clark is a DeafBlind poet, essayist, and independent scholar from Minnesota. He is the author of the poetry collections, How to Communicate (Norton 2022) and Suddenly Slow (Handtype Press 2008) and the essay collection, Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience (Handtype Press 2014). He has also edited two anthologies: Deaf American Poetry (Gallaudet University Press 2009) and Deaf Lit Extravaganza (Handtype Press 2013).

Clark has contributed significantly to the development of protactile, a language of touch used by DeafBlind people and by Clark himself when he gives readings. Kaveh Akbar has called his new book How to Communicate a "masterpiece." Clark has won many awards and published widely, including numerous poems in Poetry Magazine.

Clark lives in Hopkins, Minnesota with his wife, the artist Adrean Clark, and their three boys. He works for the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development as a Braille and protactile instructor.

This event is co-sponsored by Writers@Grinnell and Disability Resources.