Subtitling Slam Poetry for the d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences

Slam poetry is a competitive performance in which poets deliver their own, short pieces, and are judged by randomly chosen audience members. This form of performed an underexplored text type audiovisual translation (AVT). To fill this gap, paper provides introductory account current practices the slam poetry, both at local international competitions held onsite online. After that, describes challenges entailed making accessible for d/Deaf Hard Hearing means intralingual subtitles added to pre-recorded sessions. The focus analysis placed on literary style constrained immediacy inherent performance, speech rates typically high. Translation solutions illustrated with examples taken from small corpus four poems. study based authors’ experience collaboration non-profit organization Associació RED927 Literatura Oral responsible main event Barcelona (Spain).