Author of the poetry collection HARDLY CREATURES (@tin_house '25) and the verse drama MY LOVE IS WATER (@uglyducklingprs '25)
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itโs really happening ๐ iโm grateful and grateful and grateful and grateful! it has been a dream to get take care of these poems and iโm thrilled theyโll be out in the world to take care of all of you
Thrilled to announce we'll publish debut poetry collection HARDLY CREATURES @robcolgate โSummer 2025!๐
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"The Red River Entertainment District becomes accessible by virtue of me having an episode there. Tuezgayz at Barbarella becomes a hospital by virtue of Gabbie and Eli taking care of me there. I donโt like me."
โRob Macaisa Colgate
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... harder to believe
that the boy actually wants to hold your hand, that you
are not simply part of a quietly-funded diversity initiative
โ#PoetoftheWeek Rob Macaisa Colgate reads his feature poem "Self-Portrait and Tactile Replica as Living Ghost"
soundcloud.com/brooklynpoetsโฆ
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In MY LOVE IS WATER, Rob Macaisa Colgate โwrites in rigorous and experimental verse to upend our understandings of desire, race, disability, and care.โ
Read a hybrid drama and poetry collection from @uglyducklingprs this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth:
uglyducklingpresse.org/produโฆ
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Each ghost born from that part of a person that dies
when, creeping through the museum on any Tuesday,
slowly, frame by frame, you find there is no art for you.
โOur #PoetoftheWeek, Rob Macaisa Colgate. Catch him at our Reading Series this Friday 10/3!
brooklynpoets.org/community/โฆ
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Join us for our next Reading Series event on Friday, 10/3 @ 7pm ET ft. Rob Macaisa Colgate (@robcolgate), Patricia Spears Jones & Kimiko Hahn. The event is free, open to the public & livestramed via Zoom. Space is limitedโRSVP at bit.ly/bkp-bprs!
๐ญ๐ญ๐ญmy fav press iโve done maybe my fav conversation ive ever had thank youuuuu david omg
Don't miss today's episode with Rob Macaisa Colgate about his 2 debuts in poetry & verse drama. We explore questions of care, disability, accessibility & community, looking at the poem's body & at the world-at-large through a Crip Mad Poetics
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rob-macโฆ
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ALT Poet Rob Macaisa Colgate in a t-shirt and leather jacket next to the cover of his poetry collection which shows the bottom half of a bust of a human head with a blind salamander sitting atop where the head is broken.
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Don't miss today's episode with Rob Macaisa Colgate about his 2 debuts in poetry & verse drama. We explore questions of care, disability, accessibility & community, looking at the poem's body & at the world-at-large through a Crip Mad Poetics
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rob-macโฆ
#thsw
ALT Poet Rob Macaisa Colgate in a t-shirt and leather jacket next to the cover of his poetry collection which shows the bottom half of a bust of a human head with a blind salamander sitting atop where the head is broken.
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Rob Macaisa Colgateโs MY LOVE IS WATER (@uglyducklingprs) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth:
In this hybrid collection of drama and poetry, the narrator โtraverses a Chicago apartment filled with gay ghosts and broken Tagalog.โ
uglyducklingpresse.org/publiโฆ
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"This playlist whiplashes a bit from song to song."
Rob Macaisa Colgate shared a playlist for his debut poetry collection Hardly Creatures at @largeheartedboy largeheartedboy.com/2025/05/โฆ @Tin_House
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"This playlist whiplashes a bit from song to song."
Rob Macaisa Colgate shared a playlist for his debut poetry collection Hardly Creatures at @largeheartedboy largeheartedboy.com/2025/05/โฆ @Tin_House
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"Reading through Robโs debut collection, thereโs this perpetual feeling that all is accounted and cared for."
@jalengjwrites talks to Hardly Creatures' author @robcolgate for @ElectricLit !
electricliterature.com/the-pโฆ
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"You lift to find dim. No whim not made. At hymnal, eye wooden to lit hymn, herd meet . . ."
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Today we feature on our site a poem by @robcolgate, "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.
ALT Black background with red quote-shaped box. White words say Special Feature, "You lift to find dim. No whim not made. At hymnal, eye wooden to lit hymn, herd meet." Rob Macaisa Colgate, "Eli Plays Along."
ALT Black-and-white photo of Rob Macaisa Colgate, a multiracial person with short blond and black hair. They are wearing a leather jacket and a graphic T and standing with their thumbs in pant pockets. Photo is inset with a white border and red background beyond that.
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Happy Pub Day!โจ๐๐ Hardly Creatures:Poems by @robcolgate 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/HardlyCreaturesPoetryโฆ
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If you know you just *have* to read Rob's book, why not pre-order it now?
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Hit the link to get your hands on a copy of Hardly Creatures: Poems by Rob Macaisa Colgate (@robcolgate) - out 5.20.25!
bit.ly/HardlyCreaturesPoetryโฆ
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Author @robcolgate 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/HardlyCreaturesBook
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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-issโฆ ๐
@robcolgate @NandiniNbhattac @MBWwelch @LaurieSansom @ticphen @KarenZheng20 @BeckyNJames @FionaEnnis3 @Chinaecherem_ @figuraretorica_
social pissing! thx to @Poetry_Daily for the feature and @NERweb 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
Today's Featured Poem:
"Ode to Pissing" by Rob Macaisa Colgate (@robcolgate), from Hardly Creatures, published by Tin House (@Tin_House).
Read here:
poems.com/poem/ode-to-pissinโฆ
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Today's Featured Poem:
"Ode to Pissing" by Rob Macaisa Colgate (@robcolgate), from Hardly Creatures, published by Tin House (@Tin_House).
Read here:
poems.com/poem/ode-to-pissinโฆ