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Raymond Luczak | deafwoof
@raymondluczak.com
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Deaf gay Yooper writer and editor. 38 books published. 25+ plays performed. 3 full-length DVDs produced. Perpetually inquisitive in Minneapolis, MN.

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I'm very pleased to announce the second slate for the CHAPS Poetry Series. (The chapbooks are expected to ship out within the next ten days.)

www.squaresandrebels.com/chaps/index....
[ID: Three book covers are placed in a single row. The first book on the left shows a thick dark blue-gray frame containing a rectangular B&W photograph of a white man looking away from us while showing his left shoulder blade with a lyre tattoo there. The title and author’s name are in white and in the upper right corner of the photograph: ARKANSAS LUGGAGE | Ed Madden. The second book in the middle shows a thick terra-cotta frame containing a color photograph of a desolate rural landscape with a row of shrubby trees far in the distance, and with the colors of wheat and brown closer to us. The title in dark brown is centered at the top of the photograph: THE GREAT OCEAN OF THE PLAINS. The author’s name in white is centered at the bottom of the photograph: David Cummer. The third book on the right shows a thick dull pastel pink frame containing a color photograph of a scruffy-looking barefooted male dancer wearing a loose shirt and jeans as he angles his arms straight up and out while bending his body sideways in an arc against a gray background. The title and author’s name are in white: OTHER DANCES | David Rutiezer. Below the three book covers are the Squares & Rebels logo (a solid red square tilted atop a row of vertical black stripes) on the left with the text CHAPS POETRY SERIES | an imprint of SQUARES & REBELS, and the text on the right in both red and black: THE SECOND SLATE | SPRING 2025.]
February 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Oh, let's just vogue!
[ID: A middle-aged bearded white man gives a gleeful smirk while holding his hands as if praying while wearing a bright fuzzy mauve shirt with a fuzzy blue travel pillow on his head like a hat while standing in a hallway of someone’s apartment.]
January 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Here are two quick snapshots of the eponymous poem of my book ANIMALS OUT-THERE W-I-L-D--one in English and the other in ASL gloss! (The book is published by @unboundedition.bsky.social.)
[ID: The square graphic is bordered with a yellow-orange and a thin bright orange with a warm brown square centered showing the following text in both white and yellow orange: Do not speak. Finger to the lips. A voice is noise. Watch these — my hands — and ask nothing. Eloquence will come to you soon enough. RAYMOND LUCZAK from “Wild Animals Out-There” (English) in Animals Out-There W-i-l-d UNBOUND (ed.) Unbound Edition Press®] [ID: The square graphic is bordered with a warm brown and a thin yellow-orange with a bright green square centered showing the following text in both white and warm brown: speak finish-finish-finish {finger-to-the-lips} voice what noise-bang-noise-bang watch-me sign-sign you-confuse worry not visual mind-pop-up soon will” RAYMOND LUCZAK from “Wild Animals Out-There” (ASL Gloss) in Animals Out-There W-i-l-d UNBOUND (ed.) Unbound Edition Press®]
January 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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On Monday January 13th
from 6 to 7:15 pm,
I'll perform some
poems in ASL
(with Tolly Tolman voice interpreting)
at the Edie Windsor SAGE Center
705 7th Avenue, 15th Floor
(between 27th and 28th Streets),
New York, NY.
The poet Sarah Sarai will host.

Hope to see ya there!
[Image description: The graphic shows the text POETRY READING BY RAYMOND LUCZAK with a B&W picture of a middle-aged white man with a beard glancing back.]
January 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Merry Merry Merry!
[Image description: A black-and-white photograph heavily tinted in red showing a middle-aged white man with a beard and a Santa hat and a plaid shirt opened to his white undershirt smiling back at us while sitting on a sofa. The picture has a heavy black vignette border.]
December 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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If you are Deaf and tired of being left out of the banter at the Thanksgiving dinner table this coming Thursday, you are NEVER alone. Us too! #DinnerTableSyndrome

handtype.com/books/tellyo...
[ID: The book cover shows a wall sculpture in the shape of a Manhattan-like island with gear wheels painted in mostly gold and copper arranged in a chaotic pattern all connected with aluminum chains around a deep brown gear wheel that is not connected to any wheel. The sculpture’s background print shows many gear wheels clashing and merging with each other in white against a clay color. The cover’s background is solid black with the text in white and rust below the sculpture: I’LL TELL YOU LATER | Deaf Survivors of Dinner Table Syndrome | Raymond Luczak, Editor.]
November 26, 2024 at 2:27 PM