This special evening program celebrates the artistry of poetry: written, spoken, and signed. In Sound/Off, Deaf and hard-of-hearing poets writing in English join Deaf and hard-of-hearing poets making poems in American Sign Language on stage in the Guggenheim’s iconic rotunda to honor the richness and malleability of language in different hands and on different tongues. Conceived of by the Guggenheim’s 2024 Poet-in-Residence Meg Day, readers include Raymond Antrobus, Noah Buchholz, Abby Haroun, Camisha Jones, Raymond Luczak, and Sam Rush. This program will be fully interpreted in both spoken English and American Sign Language.

The program concludes with access to Day’s project Ekphrasis in Air featured on the sixth level of the museum’s rotunda as part of the installation Sixth Stanza, and an exhibition viewing of Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris: 1910-1930.