The poet Rob Macaisa Colgate climbing on rocks by the ocean! What an adventure!

Writing

Forthcoming

“Eli Tidies Up,” Bellevue Literary Review

“Maid,” Booth

“Eli Plays Along,” Cincinnati Review

“A Case for Self-Harm,” Four Way Review

“Access Request,” Meridian

“Hôpital des Beaux Arts,” Pleiades

“The Body Is Not An Apology Except For Mine Sometimes,” Shenandoah

“Eli’s App History, February 4 - 5, Messages Accidentally Erased,” Southern Humanities Review

“Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt,” swamp pink

Feeble, Winner of the Poetry Online Chapbook Series

Selected

“Abecedarian for the Care Shift…” & “Commute,” American Poetry Review

“Ode to Pissing” & “Therapist,” New England Review

“Hardly Creatures” & “Anetra Aubade,” The Margins (AAWW)

“At Tangled,” Sewanee Review

“We Do Not Enter The Gallery,” Missouri Review

“Self-Portrait and Tactile Replica as Living Ghost,” The Journal

“I Love My Friends,” Los Angeles Review

“Virtue,” Gulf Coast

“Eli Interprets,” Hayden’s Ferry Review

“Seafood City,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Mixtape: Place

“Eli Eats Dirt” & “Eli Invents,” Sixth Finch

“Eli Invents” reprinted in Poetry Daily, August 18th, 2024

“How To Survive,” Salamander

“History of Display” & “Hopescrolling,” Diode Poetry Journal

“Abecedarian After Forgetting To Take Yesterday’s Medication,” North American Review

“Fashion!” Poet Lore

“On Sex,” Malahat Review

“The Friending of Burden” & “omfg,” The Ex-Puritan

“The Softness of Language,” Capilano Review

“Like Candy,” Poets.org 

Winner of the 2022 Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize 

“Indirective,” Prairie Schooner

“Body Salad,” Washington Square Review

“Nature Poem,” The Adroit Journal

"The Light That Never Goes Out Goes Out" & "Hypomania,” Muzzle

"Sending Pictures," The Margins (AAWW)

Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2021

Included in Best of The Margins 2021 anthology

Rob climbing down a hiking trail at the Hambidge Center.

Selected Recognition

National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship • Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship • Kimmel Harding Nelson Residency • Millay Arts Core Residency • Lambda Literary Writers’ Retreat Fellowship & Full Scholarship • Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholarship • Hambidge Center Fellowship • Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant • Tin House Winter Scholarship • University of Alberta Postdoctoral Fellowship • Poetry Online Chapbook Series Fellowship • MacDowell Fellowship • Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop • Fulbright Scholarship to Canada • Andrew Julius Gutow Prize (Academy of American Poets) • James A. Michener Fellowship • Crawley-Garwood Research Grant