- Rafael Campo (poet)
Rafael Campo (poet) (1964) is an openly
gay ,Cuban-American poet, doctor, and author.He was born in
New Jersey . He graduated fromAmherst College andHarvard Medical School . He practices medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center inBoston, Massachusetts . His writing focuses on themes that promote equality and justice forgay s,people of color [http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/latina_latino_americans,2.html] , andworking-class individuals.His publications include: "The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World" (1994); "What the Body Told" (1996); "The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry" (1997); "Diva" (1999); "Landscape with Human Figure" (2002); and "The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry" (2003). He has been published in several poetry journals as well. [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/183]
He has won honors from the National Poetry Series, the
Lambda Literary Award s, and theGuggenheim Foundation . He served as a resident poet atBrandeis University and theUniversity of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana . He frequently reads at colleges, includingBrown University ,Stanford University [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/00/campo124.html] , andColby-Sawyer College .http://www.rafaelcampo.com/rc_Biography/rc_bio_index.html
External links
* [http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/People?action=view&id=2380 Annotations at the NYU Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database] of several Campo works, with links to texts and audio of the poet commenting and reading poems " [http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/poems/the.distant.moon.rc.html "The Distant Moon"] , [http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/poems/technology.medicine.rc.html "Technology and Medicine"] , [http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/poems/towards.curing.rc.html "Towards Curing AIDS"] , [http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/poems/what.the.body.told.rc.html "What the Body Told"] .
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