Visiting Poet Rob Macaisa Colgate
Join us for programs with visiting poet Rob Macaisa Colgate
Thursday, February 12
Hardly Creatures: Poems on Access Intimacy and Collective Care
Reading and Q&A
5-6pm
Klingenstein Browsing Room, Neilson Library, Smith College
Free and open to all
Join Poet Rob Macaisa Colgate for a reading plus a question and answer session.
February 13, Second Friday
Don’t mind if I do: Disabling the Poem
4–6pm
Smith College Museum of Art
Free and open to all
Drop-in writing experience in the exhibit, Don't Mind if I Do. All levels welcome.
Learn more about the February Second Friday.
About 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.