About John Lee Clark
John Lee Clark is a DeafBlind poet, essayist, historian, translator, and an actor in the most thrilling development in DeafBlind history, the Protactile movement. Currently He is a 2021-2023 Bush Leadership Fellow, a core member of Protactile Language Interpreting National Education Center, and a research consultant with the Reciprocity Lab at the University of Chicago. He is also a member of the inaugural class of Disability Futures Fellows and the recipient of a National Magazine Award for my essay “Tactile Art” as well as the Frederick Bock Prize from my beloved Poetry magazine. More suggestive of the vibrations around me, though, are his neurodiverse habits and obsessions, his love of reading and rummaging around in abandoned archives, his feeling of fierce kinship with fellow DeafBlind people and Protactile accomplices, his occasional turns to knitting and other artmaking, his tendency to plunge into warm bodies of water. He is living in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, with his partner, the ASL Deaf artist Adrean Clark; his three amazing roommates, a.k.a. his kids; and two feline collaborators.Browse all poems and texts published on John Lee Clark
