000042209 001__ 42209 000042209 005__ 20240523105550.0 000042209 037__ $$aIR 000042209 041__ $$aeng 000042209 245__ $$aWaiting on You to Die So I Can be Myself 000042209 260__ $$bGraywolf Press 000042209 269__ $$a2017 000042209 336__ $$aPoem 000042209 520__ $$aThis poem is included in the digital library as part of a partnership between the OHSU Library and the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative to share Narrative Medicine curriculum and the items used in those teaching sessions. For additional information about how the poem is used in teaching and a community driven context, please visit <a href="https://nwnmcollaborative.org/library/">Accessible Narrative Medicine website</a>. </p><p>Smith was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, and later enrolled as a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They have written three collections of poetry, have been on Forbes' yearly list of the 30 under 30, and have been awarded a literary grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Don't Call Us Dead, written by Smith and a nominee for the 2017 National Book Award, centers around their identities as a Black, Queer, and HIV Positive person. Additionally, they are a founding member of the diverse, multi-genre Dark Noise Collective. (Source: <a href="https://www.smith.edu/academics/poetry-center/danez-smith">dsmith.edu</a>)</br> </br><b>Whenever you use this item in your own work, please use the citation listed in the Related Work Citation section below.</b> 000042209 540__ $$fNo License 000042209 542__ $$fIn copyright - other owner 000042209 650__ $$aFamily$$018877 000042209 650__ $$aFeminism$$031663 000042209 650__ $$aMental Healing$$022045 000042209 650__ $$aSurvival$$026674 000042209 6531_ $$aIdentity 000042209 6531_ $$aAcceptance 000042209 6531_ $$aTrauma 000042209 6531_ $$aQueer identity 000042209 7001_ $$aSmith, Danez 000042209 789__ $$eIs source of$$whttps://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-29241_WAITING-ON-YOU-TO-DIE-SO-I-CAN-BE-MYSELF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjBGZ0cj7E8$$2URL 000042209 792__ $$aDanez Smith, “waiting on you to die so i can be myself” from <i>Homie</i>. Copyright © 2020 by Danez Smith. Used with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, <a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/">graywolfpress.org</a>. For additional information about copyright in teaching and learning, please visit our <a href="https://libguides.ohsu.edu/copyright/teaching-and-learning">copyright guide website.</a> 000042209 8564_ $$908ed6d98-14db-43e4-a0c9-b6533f92705f$$s89215$$uhttps://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42209/files/Waiting%20for%20you%20to%20die%20so%20I%20can%20be%20myself%20by%20Danez%20Smith.pdf 000042209 8564_ $$yPermissions Letter$$9c02577d0-169c-40e4-82c1-e2e369fa5069$$s46585$$uhttps://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42209/files/Smith%20in%20OHSU%20Digital%20Collections%202.pdf 000042209 980__ $$aNarrative Medicine 000042209 981__ $$aPublished$$b2023-10-02