[New York, NY]

In-Person New Works: Rob Macaisa Colgate and Latif Askia Ba
June 5, 2025, 7:00 pm
at Poets House

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About the poets: 

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). A 2025 NEA and 2024 Ruth Lilly Fellow, he is the managing poetry editor at Foglifter and lives in Chicago.

Latif Askia Ba is a poet from Brooklyn, NY. Dancing in and out of various forms, he tries again and again to realize the music of the disabled body-mind-universe. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and was the Print Poetry Editor for the Columbia Journal’s sixty-first issue. You can find his work in Poetry magazine and Poem-A-Day. His newest collection, The Choreic Period, was published by Milkweed Editions.