Poetry Workshop: Through the Lens of Ability and Identity
Fri, Oct 31
|Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
Held in collaboration with the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley!
Time & Location
Oct 31, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 901 Amherst St, Winchester, VA 22601, USA
About the Event
Calling all poets! Join Rob Macaisa Colgate, artist-in-residence at the Peter Bullough Foundation in Winchester, as he uses images from Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray, to inspire conversation, poetry, and creative writing on disability and Queer identity. For poets of all skill levels! This event is held in partnership with the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley at their location on Amherst Street; please purchase tickets to attend on their website!
About the Artist
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) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). His work appears in Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, and Poets.org, among others, and has received support from MacDowell, Fulbright, Lambda Literary, Sewanee, and Kenyon Review. He serves as a reader for POETRY Magazine and managing poetry editor at Foglifter. The inaugural poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability, he received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin.