Cassie Phillips was a member of “Women in Black,” homeless women and supporters who host annual Leaves of Remembrance ceremonies in Seattle.

In many ways, for me, the political and sociolinguistic risks of putting ASL on the walls of an art museum feel tempered by the power of the ekphrastic conceit.

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and conversational ...