National English Honor Society student members and Chapter Advisors are invited to a special conversation webinar with Rob Macaisa Colgate, the acclaimed author of Hardly Creatures on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 4 p.m. (PT) / 5 p.m. (MT) / 6 p.m. (CT) / 7 p.m. (ET).
This free webinar will fill quickly. Colgate’s work brings poetry, disability studies, and lived experience together in innovative and deeply human ways. His award-winning collection Hardly Creatures explores questions of embodiment, identity, connection, and what it means to be human, while his verse drama My Love is Water pushes the boundaries between poetry and performance. In this webinar, Colgate will discuss his creative practice, sharing how his experiences as a poet, editor, and scholar shape his writing and offering insight into the processes through which poems and other literary works come to life.
Attendees can submit questions for Colgate during registration for the event.
Rob Macaisa Colgate is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (2025), winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award and longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the verse drama My Love is Water (2025). Currently based in Chicago, he serves as managing poetry editor of Foglifter Journal and was the inaugural poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability. A graduate of the New Writers Project at University of Texas at Austin, he is a recipient of fellowships from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Fulbright.
More from NEHSXpress: September 8, 2026
NEHS Honorary Members
New NEHS Honor Code
Join Us for the UK Literary Tour 2027
2026–2027 Key Texts and Submissions Dates
