Rafael Campo

RAFAEL CAMPO teaches and practices internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, where he also directs the Art and Humanities Initiative’s Literature and Writing Program.  He is also the Poetry Section Editor for JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.  Author of nine highly acclaimed books, his honors and awards include a Guggenheim fellowship and a Lambda Literary.  His poetry and essays have appeared The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, Poetry, Scientific American and elsewhere.  He lectures widely, with recent appearances at TEDx Cambridge, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Library of Congress. His new and selected volume of poems, Comfort Measures Only, is now available from Duke University Press.  For more information, please visit www.rafaelcampo.com.

  • Unexceptional

    Except we were in love, or so it seemed.
  • Ophthalmology

    No me miras, she said, hiding her face,
  • END OF LIFE DISCUSSION

    She speaks for him, her husband’s deepening
  • Wilhelmina Shakespeare

    Blond hair, blue eyes, buck teeth:  we taunted you