ABSTRACT
This piece demonstrates how the personal, poetic, and performative might aid the autoethnographic writer. It uses the personal, poetic, and performative stylistic devices to render the account. That is, it tells a personal narrative to specify what the personal offers autoethnographic writers; it brings into play poetic fragments and a series of poems to show the power of the poetic; and it calls upon performative writing to make the case for a performative autoethnography. It ends with a personal note, detailing how the personal, poetic, and performative establish evaluative criteria for autoethnography.
