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NEW LONDON, N.H., Feb. 10, 2006 — The Colby-Sawyer Friends of Poetry and the Colby-Sawyer Humanities Department's Poetry in the Afternoon series will feature its second guest, Rafael Campo. The event will be held March 2 at 4:30 p.m. in the Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives in the Susan Colgate Cleveland Library/Learning Center.

Campo is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Medical School. He practices and teaches internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where his medical practice serves mostly Latino, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people as well as people with HIV infection.

Campo's most recent work is a poetry book entitled, The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry. The book is a selection of poetry that features a healing message. Doctor Gerome Hirsch said of his work, “The words used by a doctor may hurt to heal. With deep sensitivity to the soul of the patient, Rafael Campo shows us, as only a poet can, how language can be a powerful medicine.” His works have been described as “characteristically forthright, realistic and impassioned.” He earned critical acclaim for his book, The Other Man Was Me, winning the 1993 National Poetry Series Award.

Campo joins a growing list of regional poets who have participated in poetry readings at Colby-Sawyer College. Among them are Steven Cramer, author of Goodbye to the Orchard; Joan Joffe Hall, who wrote The Rift Zone; and New England native, Wesley McNair, who has authored or edited 13 books of poetry.

-Joe Sampson '06

Colby-Sawyer, founded in 1837, is a comprehensive liberal arts college located in the scenic Lake Sunapee Region of central New Hampshire. Students from 25 states and five foreign countries learn in small classes through a select array of programs that integrate the liberal arts and sciences with pre-professional experience.

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