John Lee Clark is an American 45 years of age, a crusader, deafblind bard, and writer from Minnesota, United States of America. Clark is a unique poet and writer because he was born into a deaf family that used sign language to communicate. In his adolescence, Clark became blind and deaf, which did not kill his ambition to become a writer and poet. After graduating from Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD), he started his career as a Braille and later started his writing career. In 2008, Clark wrote Suddenly Slow poem, and in 2014, he published Where I Stand. Clark’s latest poem is How to Communicate (2022).
How to Communicate by John Lee Clark explores and accepts new rhetorical opportunities to develop an activist community. Clark takes readers through his vibrant expedition through words, society and his recounting of individuality as a poet. His career as Braille inspires Clark's poems to build up innovative narratives that conform to 19th-century doggerel. After Clark identifies a gap in the current literary tenet, he writes poems appropriate for people who are deaf or hard of hearing constructed on pat. Consequently, Lark constructs an outstanding canon, which is inclusive to enable deaf people and people who are blind to feel, touch, and hear the world around them.
How to Communicate (2022) is a dazzling first-appearance novel that exhibits the influence of poetry in the world. After its publication, How to Communicate received positive reviews. According to Norton Reviews, How to Communicate is an exceptional, transformative literary work that exhibits poetic power. How to Communicate won the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry in 2023 and was listed as a finalist in the National Book Award for Poetry (NBAP) in 2023.
