September 23, 2005 SELINSGROVE, (Pa.) – Physician and poet Rafael Campo will present a reading on Thursday, Oct. 6, as part of the Visiting Writers Series, sponsored by The Writers' Institute at Susquehanna University. Campo's reading, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in Isaacs Auditorium of Seibert Hall, is one of many events related to the 2005-2006 university theme, “Latin American Mosaic: Nations and Cultures/Mosaico Latinoamericano: Naciones y Culturas.” The reading is free and open to the public, and the poet's books will be available for purchase and signing. Campo won the National Poetry Series award in 1993 for The Other Man Was Me and two Lambda Awards in 1996 and 1997 for What the Body Told and The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire . Campo has been featured on the National Endowment for the Arts Web site and has spoken on National Public Radio. “Rafael Campo…is one of the most eloquent, emotionally honest modern poets,” says Rhomylly B. Forbes of A&U: Americas AIDS Magazine . “His poems both dance and sing, and offer his readers a rare opportunity to enjoy the music of a poetry not afraid, or ashamed, to belt out its beautiful and painful truths,” says the Washington Blade . Campo currently teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston . He is the second of six visiting writers scheduled to read at Susquehanna during the 2005-2006 academic year. On Wednesday, Nov. 9, fiction writer Jill McCorkle will visit the university. Contact: Victoria Kidd 570-372-4119 #vk#0691#