The 2008-2009 Concordia University Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS is pleased to present:
Rafael Campo with his lecture entitled What the Body Told: Poetry and HIV.
When: Thursday, January 22, 6 p.m.
Where: H-110, Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd., West.
Rafael Campo is a prizewinning Cuban-American poet and renowned physician from Boston.
Campo’s poetry has won many awards such as the National Poetry Series Award, the Lambda Literary Award for poetry, the gold medal in poetry from ForeWord Magazine and has also appeared in many major anthologies.
His work as a physician at Harvard Medical School, which serves mostly Latinos, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered people, and people with HIV infection, greatly influences his poetry. His lecture will highlight how his creative process as a writer brings together his medical vocation, his composite identities and the realities of the body.
A recipient of an honorary doctorate from Amherst College, Campo’s poetry has appeared in magazines as diverse as The New York Times Magazine and Out.
Reponse by Stephen Snow, Chair Creative Arts Therapies Department, Faculty of Fine Arts.
Special greetings by Dr. Judith Woodsworth, President of Concordia University.
This event is free and open to the general public.
For more about Rafael Campo, visit his website.
For further information please contact Emily Brossard, HIV/AIDS Lecture Series Coordinator, at (514) 848-2424 ext. 7998, via email at hivaids@alcor.concordia.ca, or visit the Lecture Series website.
Posted on January 19, 2009
