Bibliography
Meca’Ayo has published work in pulpmouth, Rigorous Magazine, LitPub, Inverted Syntax, LitPub, Tarpaulin Sky, Ottawa Design Club, Full Stop Reviews, Heavy Feather Review, Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight, Denver Westword, Colorado Independent, Denver North Star, and more. Their work has been featured on Colorado Voices | Cuentos de Colorado on PBS, organized by Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre, and TedX Mile-High RECONNECT (2022).
About an identity polyptych: an identity polyptych is a multi-part, multi-genre work that explores familial estrangement, identity as a mixed-race Black person, and movement towards reconciliation. It can be considered a memoir. The book works to find an impossible peace as it relies on the trickiness of memory, the effects of trauma, the necessity and constant work of healing, and the unfulfilled wish to feel a true sense of belonging.
