The Poems in “Hardly Creatures” Take You Through an Accessible Art Museum - Electric Literature

The Poems in “Hardly Creatures” Take You Through an Accessible Art Museum - Electric Literature

At the opening of Rob Macaisa Colgate’s debut poetry collection, Hardly Creatures, readers are presented with an Access Legend featuring fifteen Universal Access Symbols—symbols used in visual art exhibits and museums around the world to help potential audiences identify what events may be accessible to them. These Universal Access Symbols are found, in various combinations and reimaginings, throughout the collection, cluing in readers on what t…