Rafael Campo Photo by: Jorge Arroyo

Rafael Campo, Reading

The Maine Humanities Council presents Rafael Campo, M.D., essayist, and poet, reading from his work at 8 p.m. on October 25th at the Space Gallery on Congress Street in Portland.

Campo's newest book is The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry. He is the author of four books of poetry, including Diva (Duke, 1999), What the Body Told, and a collection of essays, The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity,and Desire.

Campo has received the National Hispanic Academy of Arts and Sciences Annual Achievement Prize, the Pushcart Prize, a National Poetry Series award, and two Lambda Literary Awards.

Dr. Campo teaches at Harvard Medical School and is an associate at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Campo writes often about his Cuban heritage, his work with AIDS patients and his identity as a gay man.

This reading is sponsored by the Frannie Peabody Center, Longfellow Books and Maine Humanities Council. Funding for this reading is provided by the Art of Association project of the Federation of Humanities Councils. A reception and book signing will follow the reading. Admission is $3.00.

If you would like to hear readings from Rafael Campo, they are available on Counterbalance Poetry website, in audio and video.

Rafael Campo is one of the presenters at Imagine What It's Like: Literature as a Bridge Between Cultures. For more information about this conference, also on October 25, you can see this link.