TY - GEN N2 - This 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>Before obtaining his PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, Jericho Brown, a Louisiana native, served as a speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans. Additionally, he has a BA from Dillard University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of New Orleans. He is currently an associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His writing covers his own experiences growing up as an African-American man in the US. (Source: <a href="https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/creative-writing-fellows/jericho-brown">arts.gov</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> AB - This 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>Before obtaining his PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, Jericho Brown, a Louisiana native, served as a speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans. Additionally, he has a BA from Dillard University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of New Orleans. He is currently an associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His writing covers his own experiences growing up as an African-American man in the US. (Source: <a href="https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/creative-writing-fellows/jericho-brown">arts.gov</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> T1 - Microscopes DA - 2019 AU - Brown, Jericho L1 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42305/files/Brown%20in%20OHSU%20Digital%20Collections.pdf L1 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42305/files/Microscopes%20by%20Jericho%20Brown.pdf PB - Copper Canyon Press LA - eng PY - 2019 ID - 42305 L4 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42305/files/Brown%20in%20OHSU%20Digital%20Collections.pdf L4 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42305/files/Microscopes%20by%20Jericho%20Brown.pdf KW - Racism KW - Social Discrimination KW - Identity KW - Self worth KW - Trauma KW - Black identity KW - Queer identity TI - Microscopes Y1 - 2019 L2 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42305/files/Brown%20in%20OHSU%20Digital%20Collections.pdf L2 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42305/files/Microscopes%20by%20Jericho%20Brown.pdf LK - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42305/files/Brown%20in%20OHSU%20Digital%20Collections.pdf LK - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42305/files/Microscopes%20by%20Jericho%20Brown.pdf UR - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42305/files/Brown%20in%20OHSU%20Digital%20Collections.pdf UR - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42305/files/Microscopes%20by%20Jericho%20Brown.pdf ER -