Interviews [Joe Flaherty and Wendy Low]

Part of a collection of interviews made for a film on ASL poetry, "The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox." In the first interview, Joe Flaherty, Executive Director of Writers & Books in Rochester, New York, discusses his growing awareness of and involvement with the Deaf community in Rochester over the course of the last couple of decades. In the second interview, Wendy Low, Director of Community Outreach and Youth Education at Writers & Books, discusses the beginnings of ASL poetry and her work putting together the National Deaf Poetry Conference in 1987.