My poems can make a difference!

Meca’Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) is a queer poetry-centric multi-genre writer, singer and photography-centric artist who currently lives in Denver Colorado. Their writing and photography have been featured in literary magazines, art exhibits, journals, anthologies, and other venues and publications.

Meca’Ayo received their MFA in poetry and fiction from the Mile-High MFA at Regis University in 2018. Their work focuses on being in-between things (in queerness, race, neurodivergence, and even astrological cusp!), finding beauty, documentation of self and surrounding landscapes, healing, and ever moving towards positive change.

Their first book, an identity polyptych, a multi-part, multi-genre work that explores familial estrangement, identity as a mixed-race Black person, and movement towards reconciliation, debuted from The Elephants on the Salish Sea Fall 2021.

Your support gives me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month.

Tupelo Press provides the canvas; I bring my words, accompanied by a cohort of fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 200 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.

Every dollar gives me confidence to write more, and helps the press place more poems in gorgeous books. Help me to help this distinguished press. Give today!