rob macaisa colgate ๐ต๐ธ๐
@robcolgate
Author of the poetry collection HARDLY CREATURES (@tin_house '25) and the verse drama MY LOVE IS WATER (@uglyducklingprs '25)
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Check your mailboxes and local bookstores for our fall issue 228!๐ โ Featuring cover art by Eli Bornowskyโ and new writing by art donaldsonโs ball girl, @hutchisoncove, rob macaisa colgate ๐ต๐ธ๐, Guy Elston Meghan Kemp-Gee ๐บ THE ANIMAL IN THE ROOM, @lareinedauphine, @JessicaLeeMcM, A. F. Moritz, and more. โ malahatreview.ca/issues/228.html
reading poems by Jean Valentine & Rob Macaisa Colgate (rob macaisa colgate ๐ต๐ธ๐) to Sam Herschel | ACAB is the perfect sunday afternoon activity ๐ซ
good morning to a new chapter. i am elated, joyweeping, astonished, honored to share that my debut, full-length collection of poems is the 2025 winner of the APR / Honickman First Book Prize, as selected by Nicole Sealey. ๐๐ฉธBloodmercy๐ฉธ๐ Copper Canyon Press โข September 9, 2025
grateful to be a 2025 Nat'l Endow f/t Arts fellow, because more than being recognized for poems i want to write poems, and this will let me write poems โ๐ฝ so thrilled to share the honor with loves from macdowell, kenyon, sewanee, UT, foglifter... what a community ๐คarts.gov/news/press-relโฆ
โจ Happy National Poetry Month!โจ Tin House is celebrating with a new video every Friday of April. Today it's rob macaisa colgate ๐ต๐ธ๐ reading the poem "Eli Eats Dirt" from his forthcoming poetry collection HARDLY CREATURES (5/20/25).๐๐ Read more: bit.ly/HardlyCreatureโฆ
social pissing! thx to Poetry Daily for the feature and New England Review who originally published this poem, now a cornerstone of Hardly Creatures which is here w Tin House in less than a month! May 20! i don't do the public-facing thing much but am grateful for folks who make it easy
Our spring issue (48) is out now, featuring poetry, stories & essays by so many incredible writers you'll want to read! blreview.org/product/blr-isโฆ ๐ rob macaisa colgate ๐ต๐ธ๐ Nandini Bhattacharya Michael Welch Laurie Sansom B Donnelly Karen Zheng Becky Nicole James Fiona Ennis neche sandra dolores
Author rob macaisa colgate ๐ต๐ธ๐ unboxes debut poetry collection Hardly Creatures! (5.20.25)!๐โจ Read more about the book that a โญStarred Publishers Weekly review says is a "joyfully inventive debut [that] honors the disabled community" : bit.ly/HardlyCreatureโฆ
If you know you just *have* to read Rob's book, why not pre-order it now? ๐๐โจ Hit the link to get your hands on a copy of Hardly Creatures: Poems by Rob Macaisa Colgate (rob macaisa colgate ๐ต๐ธ๐) - out 5.20.25! bit.ly/HardlyCreatureโฆ
Today we feature on our site a poem by rob macaisa colgate ๐ต๐ธ๐, "Eli Plays Along." It's part of his debut collection, *Hardly Creatures*, out with Tin House later this week, and brings together a spoken monologue, assistive technology, and incredible wordplay. Link in first comment.
Happy Pub Day!โจ๐๐ Hardly Creatures:Poems by rob macaisa colgate ๐ต๐ธ๐ is out today! โColgate writes about his disability community w/ a deep sense of kinship, joy and honesty, providing an illuminating experience for readers.โ โSF Chronicle, a Best Book of Spring bit.ly/HardlyCreatureโฆ
"Reading through Robโs debut collection, thereโs this perpetual feeling that all is accounted and cared for." Jalen G. Jones๐ช talks to Hardly Creatures' author rob macaisa colgate ๐ต๐ธ๐ for Electric Literature ! electricliterature.com/the-poems-in-hโฆ
