Poetry off the Shelf: Mark Doty & Rafael Campo

Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poetry, including Deep Lane (2015), Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2008 National Book Award, and My Alexandria (1993), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Rafael Campo teaches and practices medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The author of eight books of poetry, most recently Alternative Medicine (2013), Campo’s new and selected volume Comfort Measures Only will be published by Duke University Press this year. His awards include the 2013 Hippocrates Open International Prize, one of the world’s highest-value awards for a single poem for original verse that addresses a medical theme. 

Registration has been extended for the Ninth Annual Hippocrates Poetry & Medicine Symposium.