• About Ayo

    An Atlanta native, M. Ayodele Heath is author of Otherness (Brick Road Poetry Press). A graduate of the MFA program at New England College, his honors include:

    • Caversham Centre for Artists fellow (South Africa)
    • Emerging Artist grant (Atlanta Bureau for Cultural Affairs

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    This is language swooning and falling in love with itself; “consonants sharp as fangs and clean/ as bone.” Here are poems “burning the pages in my eyes;” poems that are sharp, hip, sassy and smart as whips, taut as drums; poems full of beauty and horror and passion, unpredictable at every turn. This is the kind of poetry that keeps poetry alive.

    — Cecilia Woloch, author of Carpathia