Rafael Campo, an award-winning poet and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will give a lecture and present a poetry reading at Hamilton College on Thursday, Sept. 27. The lecture, "Fact versus Truth: Examining Health Disparities through Diverse Illness Narratives," will take place at 4:10 p.m. in the Chapel. The lecture is sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project at Hamilton College and the Department of English. The poetry reading will take place at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. Both events are free and open to the public.
Campo, a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Medical School, teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where his medical practice serves mostly Latinos, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered people and HIV-infected patients. He is the author of The Other Man Was Me, which won the 1993 National Poetry Series Award; What the Body Told, which won a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry; and a collection of essays, The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire. In August of 2003, W.W. Norton published The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry, essays on poetry and healing. In May 2007, Duke University Press published Campo's fifth book of poems, The Enemy, to wide critical acclaim.
Campo's work has also been featured on the National Endowment for the Arts website and on National Public Radio. With the support of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, he wrote Diva (Duke University Press, 1999), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Lambda Literary Awards for poetry. He is a recipient of the Annual Achievement Award from the National Hispanic Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Pushcart Prize.
Campo, a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Medical School, teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where his medical practice serves mostly Latinos, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered people and HIV-infected patients. He is the author of The Other Man Was Me, which won the 1993 National Poetry Series Award; What the Body Told, which won a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry; and a collection of essays, The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire. In August of 2003, W.W. Norton published The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry, essays on poetry and healing. In May 2007, Duke University Press published Campo's fifth book of poems, The Enemy, to wide critical acclaim.
Campo's work has also been featured on the National Endowment for the Arts website and on National Public Radio. With the support of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, he wrote Diva (Duke University Press, 1999), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Lambda Literary Awards for poetry. He is a recipient of the Annual Achievement Award from the National Hispanic Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Pushcart Prize.
