rob macaisa colgate 🇵🇸🍉

Author of the poetry collection HARDLY CREATURES (@tin_house '25) and the verse drama MY LOVE IS WATER (@uglyducklingprs '25)

[rob macaisa colgate 🇵🇸🍉 @robcolgate]

it’s really happening 💜 i’m grateful and grateful and grateful and grateful! it has been a dream to get take care of these poems and i’m thrilled they’ll be out in the world to take care of all of you

[McCormack Writing Center @mccormack_wc]

Thrilled to announce we'll publish debut poetry collection HARDLY CREATURES @robcolgate —Summer 2025!🎉

[ANMLY :: Anomaly :: Anomalous Press @ANMLY_LIT]

"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 don’t like me."

—Rob Macaisa Colgate

https://t.co/eBe61BWPKj

[Brooklyn Poets @BrooklynPoets]

... harder to believe

that the boy actually wants to hold your hand, that you
are not simply part of a quietly-funded diversity initiative

—#PoetoftheWeek Rob Macaisa Colgate reads his feature poem "Self-Portrait and Tactile Replica as Living Ghost"

https://t.co/otcXk2rXri

[CLMP @CLMPorg]

In MY LOVE IS WATER, Rob Macaisa Colgate “writes in rigorous and experimental verse to upend our understandings of desire, race, disability, and care.”

Read a hybrid drama and poetry collection from @uglyducklingprs this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth:
https://t.co/PLSiTHJQHL

[Brooklyn Poets @BrooklynPoets]

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.

—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Rob Macaisa Colgate. Catch him at our Reading Series this Friday 10/3!

https://t.co/TyFEUOKmWU

[Brooklyn Poets @BrooklynPoets]

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 limited—RSVP at https://t.co/eHIGrojKsJ!

[rob macaisa colgate 🇵🇸🍉 @robcolgate]

@DoodleDharma @Poetry_Daily Of course! All episodes of BTC are longform so Tin House always posts the transcript 😊 https://t.co/UtQOklhuIv

[rob macaisa colgate 🇵🇸🍉 @robcolgate]

😭😭😭my fav press i’ve done maybe my fav conversation ive ever had thank youuuuu david omg

[(((David Naimon))) @DavidNaimon]

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: https://t.co/b8yy7WPPf5
#thsw

[(((David Naimon))) @DavidNaimon]

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: https://t.co/b8yy7WPPf5
#thsw

[rob macaisa colgate 🇵🇸🍉 @robcolgate]

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[CLMP @CLMPorg]

Rob Macaisa Colgate’s MY LOVE IS WATER (@uglyducklingprs) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth:

In this hybrid collection of drama and poetry, the narrator “traverses a Chicago apartment filled with gay ghosts and broken Tagalog.”
https://t.co/5tgXOgAiYI

[rob macaisa colgate 🇵🇸🍉 @robcolgate]

@CLMPorg @uglyducklingprs 🤎🤎🤎

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"This playlist whiplashes a bit from song to song."

Rob Macaisa Colgate shared a playlist for his debut poetry collection Hardly Creatures at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/eaaDqlTzSI @Tin_House

[McCormack Writing Center @mccormack_wc]

💗✨🎧 @robcolgate

[McCormack Writing Center @mccormack_wc]

"Reading through Rob’s debut collection, there’s this perpetual feeling that all is accounted and cared for."

@jalengjwrites talks to Hardly Creatures' author @robcolgate for @ElectricLit !

https://t.co/GL1fmjVrNE

[Cincinnati Review @CincinnReview]

@robcolgate @Tin_House "You lift to find dim. No whim not made. At hymnal, eye wooden to lit hymn, herd meet . . ."

https://t.co/zsfKY2xez2

[Cincinnati Review @CincinnReview]

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.

[McCormack Writing Center @mccormack_wc]

Happy Pub Day!✨𓆈💗 Hardly Creatures:Poems by @robcolgate is out today!

“Colgate writes about his disability community w/ a deep sense of kinship, joy and honesty, providing an illuminating experience for readers.”
—SF Chronicle, a Best Book of Spring

https://t.co/E2dOadcUfj

[McCormack Writing Center @mccormack_wc]

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!

https://t.co/E2dOadcUfj

[McCormack Writing Center @mccormack_wc]

Author @robcolgate unboxes debut poetry collection Hardly Creatures! (5.20.25)!𓆈✨

Read more about the book that a ⭐Starred Publishers Weekly review says is a "joyfully inventive debut [that] honors the disabled community" :

https://t.co/9gPUK75aby

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

Our spring issue (48) is out now, featuring poetry, stories & essays by so many incredible writers you'll want to read! https://t.co/9Mfvtt5y3P 📖
@robcolgate @NandiniNbhattac @MBWwelch @LaurieSansom @ticphen @KarenZheng20 @BeckyNJames @FionaEnnis3 @Chinaecherem_ @figuraretorica_

[rob macaisa colgate 🇵🇸🍉 @robcolgate]

:0 me!

[Poetry Daily @Poetry_Daily]

Today's Featured Poet:

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, he is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025).