Multigenre Writings
Meca’Ayo Cole is a published writer of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, news, collaborative, and hybrid works. For a selected list of publishings, scroll below for links under each genre.
Selected List of Publications
Books
an identity polyptych, (hybrid memoir/book experiment) The Elephants, (ed. Broc Rossell & Jordan Scott), Sept. 2021.
Collaborations
“Catalog of Hope”, poem and art collaboration with artists Heather Crank and Greg Amanti (Crahmanti) Zine 0005: Collaboration, Ottawa Design Club, November 2022.
Reviews
"Clyfford Still, Art, and the Young Mind" DARIA: Denver Art Review (Genevieve Waller, ed.), 2022.
“Devon Dikeou: Mid-Career Smear” DARIA: Denver Art Review (Genevieve Waller, ed.), 2021.
Review: "Nari Ward: We the People", DARIA: Denver Art Review, (Genevieve Waller, ed.), July 21, 2020.
“When Rap Spoke Straight to God – Erica Dawson”, Full. Stop. Reveiws. Interviews. Marginalia. 2019.
“GeNtry!fication: Or, the Scene of the Crime – Chaun Webster”, Full. Stop. Reveiws. Interviews. Marginalia. 2018.
"The Bad Plus", (music review), Equilibrium Magazine (Amy Garrett-Brown ed), 2007, print.
Interviews
Covid Chronicles Coffee Chat (YouTube), 2020-2021.
An Interview with Erika T. Wurth, Full Stop Reviews, December, 2020 (ed. Kyle Francis Williams).
Essays
“if i change my name, will you still love me? wait. i am doing this for me.”, just femme and dandy magazine, vol 2: REBIRTH. 2022.
"If you really wanted to hear the news, you would take a walk through the city" (essay + photography) Heavy Feather Review (Jason Teal ed.), 2019
"Without A Compass" (essay), Divine Revolutions Magazine (Asante M. George ed.), 3/5/2008.
"Starting a Club Equals Your Best Internship" (article), Sigma Tau Delta High Plains Newsletter (Kristofer Adam Speirs, ed.), Fall 2007.
"You Go to School for Shortcuts and Community" (article), Sigma Tau Delta High Plains Newsletter (Kristofer Adam Speirs ed.), Spring, 2007.
News / Promo
“The Future of a 38th Ave Business No Longer an Enigma”, The Denver Northstar, 2021.
“After Complaints and Mediation, Jazz Returns to Sloan’s Lake”, The Denver Northstar, 2021.
“Leslie Minnis Is Fighting Climate Change With a New Mural”, Denver Westword, 2019.
“Darrell Anderson Creating Art From Doomed City Park Golf Course Trees”, Denver Westword, 2019.
"Charles Russell's Elektronika is for Everyone", (article) for Cabal Gallery blog, 2018.
"Four Artists to Experience at Cabal Creepshow 2018", (article) for Cabal Gallery blog, 2018.
Covid Chronicles Coffee Chat (host)
Full Stop: Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia.
examiner.com (2014-16)
AXS.com (2014-16)
elephant journal (2015)
Colorado Independent (2015)
Denver Crossroads (2013)
Short Stories
"Attention" (fiction), Cellar Door: An Anthology: Threshold (Michael William Prince ed.), 2012.
"The Adoption" (short fiction), Tales to Oddify, Fall/Winter 2009, (Owen Clifford Esq. ed.), 11/2009.
Poetry
Seven images, cut apart poems, & broadside experiments, Resistance, Resilience, and Joy, A BIPOC Boulder Creatives Zine, Issue One (Kamala Gopalakrishnan, Gwendalynn Roebke, ed.), November 2020.
Four Poems from Identity Polyptychs, Rigorous Magazine, February 2020.
"Circe" (poem), Lambda Poetry Spotlight, July 16, 2019
"O. &Soon" (poem + sound recording), Pulpmouth: Issue One (Bailey Pittenger. Julia Madsen. Rachel Franklin Wood. Emily Barton Altman. Evelyn Hampton, eds.), March 20, 2019.
"Mermaid, 1969" (Poem), anthologized in Poems from the Back Forty by Columbine Poets of Colorado, 2018
"egg" (poem), Heavy Feather Review (Jason Teal ed.), 2018.
"Mermaid, 1969" (poem-sound recording), Inverted Syntax, (Nawal Nadar-French ed.) 2018.
"a strawberry field in Oregon, summer of '96" (poem-sound recording), Inverted Syntax, (Nawal Nadar-French ed.) 2018.
"Dream of a Broken Heart", (guest blog) One Art Podcast (Devi Lockwood ed.), Feb. 2018.
"Mermaid" (poem), Pirene's Fountain (2009).
"Waterfall" (poem), Cellar Door: An Anthology, Issue I, (Michael William Prince ed.), Winter 2010, print.
"Your Daemon Tongue" (poem), Cellar Door: An Anthology, Issue I, (Michael William Prince ed.), Winter 2010, print.
"Ascension" (poem), Cellar Door: An Anthology, Issue I, (Michael William Prince ed.), Winter 2010, print.
"i sing love ballads" (poem), Cafe Cultura Community Speaks Project (unknown ed.), 9/2009, print.
"Damballa" (poem), Cafe Cultura Community Speaks Project (unknown ed.), 9/2009, print.
"Beltane, Nineteen-Ninety-Something at Farmer Browns" (poem), Divine Revolutions Magazine (Asante M. George ed.), 10, 2009.
"Mermaid" (poem), Pirene's Fountain (Lark Vernon Timmons ed.), 5/2009.
"Damballa" (poem), Metrosphere Magazine (Jessica Snavlin ed.), 1/21/2009, print.
"I sing love ballads" (poem), Metro: For Alumni and Friends of Metropolitan State College of Denver Alumni Magazine (unknown ed.), Summer 2008, print.
"Metallurgy" (poem), Sigma Tau Delta High Plains Newsletter (Jessica Snavlin ed.), 5/2008.
"Damballa" (poem), Divine Revolutions Magazine (Asante M. George ed.), 3/5/2008.
"I sing love ballads" (poem), Metrosphere Magazine (Laura Grolla ed.), 2/2008, print.
"Love Poem" (poem), Equilibrium Magazine (Amy Garrett-Brown ed.), 2007, print.
"Crumbs" (poem), Metrosphere Magazine (unknown ed.), 11/2006, print.