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ABSTRACT
In 2021, I attended the first National Communication Association conference since 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic began), and I participated in Kirt Shineman’s experimental collaborative performance, Last Words. In response to Shineman’s curation of historic texts in an experimental form, this response reflects on my immersive audience member <-> performer experience, and concludes by using William Butler Yeats’ “Easter 1916” (and other Yeats texts) to craft a poetic reply to the content, form, and 1916/2021 time periods of Last Words.
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