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Abstract
The capacity to write rebelliously, in varying registers and voices, tempos and volumes, as we have seen featured across this book, is boundaryless. As writers, whether within or beyond academia, we simultaneously perform and materialize We-ness and I-ness. We come to you the reader, risk-taking and vulnerable, in the process of writing. For us, all academic writing is/should be a conscious strategy to push boundaries, to disrupt, to rupture conventions. This is so essential, that its very repetition signals the reader to attend both to its message and meaning. So, in this brief and final rebellious act, we move between departing radically from academic writing to arriving at a new academic endeavor; a transaction between reader and text produced by poem-as-event.