Hardly Creatures: Poems on Access Intimacy and Collective Care by Rob Macaisa Colgate

Reading and Q&A with poet Rob Macaisa Colgate. 

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. He is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025), winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry, and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). A 2026 Creative Capital, 2025 National Endowment for the Arts, and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow, his work has received support from MacDowell, Fulbright, Lambda Literary, Sewanee, and Kenyon Review, among others. He serves as the managing poetry editor at Foglifter and lives in Chicago.

This program is presented in conjunction with Smith College Museum of Art's exhibition Don't mind if I do.