The Subsequent Blues book.

The Subsequent Blues book. E. Ethelbert Miller writes of The Subsequent Blues, Gary Copeland Lilley writes like a man who owns a Stetson hat. Is he Stagolee? The Subsequent Blues is a book filled with a sinner’s honesty. Lilley captures life with all its blue tones and shades. From cigarette smoke, to drinks and drugs, a few of the poems are as seductive as a woman’s thighs. Lilley has seen enough bad times and death that each poem he writes has that flicker of light we once called soul. Put this book in your mojo ba. .

Gary Copeland Lilley writes sonnets and he writes scat, applying traditional forms to untraditional subjects, achieving . Lilley captures life with all its blue tones and shades

Gary Copeland Lilley writes sonnets and he writes scat, applying traditional forms to untraditional subjects, achieving great grace and insight via ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultural fusions. He examines the DC ghetto and an assortment of its players (voodoo priests, junkies, soldiers, mother. through the lenses of both a sonnet’s crucial turn and the jazz riff’s apparent, adamant ess.

Sanctuaries for the deacon’s sons. he jack-hammered holes in the crazy streets, bandana dripping and him pushing the blade, how the summer was the heat, and trouble and love simmered to a circumstance, getting sanctified strength in lockdown, the right shoes to walk parole and the blues, Lucifer playing the steel strings.

Worldly Pleasures, Lilley, Gary Copeland. The Subsequent Blues, Moss, Thylias. Blue-Tail Fly, Hayes, Terrance. Wind in a Box, Jackson, Major. Hoops: Poems, Johnson, Amaud Jamaul. Slave Moth, Walker, Frank X. Buffalo Dance. 2005, Alexander, Elizabeth.

Gary Copeland Lilley. Sanctuaries for the deacon’s sons Is he Stagolee? The Subsequent Blues is a book filled with a sinner’s honesty. Lilley captures life with all its blue tones and shades

Gary Copeland Lilley. Sanctuaries for the deacon’s sons.

Shemekia Copeland never holds back. With each subsequent release, Copeland’s music has continued to grow

Shemekia Copeland never holds back. With each subsequent release, Copeland’s music has continued to grow. From her debut through 2005’s The Soul Truth, Shemekia earned eight Blues Music Awards, a host of Living Blues Awards (including the prestigious 2010 Blues Artist Of The Year) and more accolades from fans, critics and fellow musicians. 2000’s Wicked received a Grammy nomination.

Gary Copeland Lilley calls the southern edge of The Great Dismal Swamp his ancestral home. He is veteran of the U. S. Navy Submarine Force, and long-time blues denizen of Washington, DC and Chicago. He has been a poet-in-residence for WritersCorps, The Poetry Center of Chicago, and Young Chicago Authors. He earned his MFA at Warren Wilson College.

Gary Copeland Lilley is a North Carolina native and earned his MFA from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. His publications include four books of poetry of which the most recent is Alpha Zulu from Ausable Press/Copper Canyon Press

Gary Copeland Lilley is a North Carolina native and earned his MFA from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. His publications include four books of poetry of which the most recent is Alpha Zulu from Ausable Press/Copper Canyon Press. He currently lives and teaches in Port Townsend, WA.

Gary Copeland Lilley writes sonnets and he writes scat, applying traditional forms to untraditional subjects, achieving great grace and insight via 'high' and 'low' cultural fusions. through the lenses of both a sonnet's crucial turn and the jazz riff's apparent, adamant ess.