Please join us Monday, Feb. 11 as we welcome Asheville poet Gary Copeland Lilley for a reading in the Showroom at Hub-Bub at 7:30 p.m. Copeland "writes sonnets and writes scat, applying traditional forms to untraditional subjects, achieving great grace and insight via ‘high' and  ‘low' cultural fusions.

His 2004 poetry collection, The Subsequent Blues, examines the Washington, D.C ghetto and an assortment of its players (voodoo priests, junkies, soldiers, mothers) through the lenses of both a sonnet's crucial turn and the jazz riff's apparent, adamant stream-of-consciousness. Originally from Sandy Cross, North Carolina, Lilley was a founding member of the Black Rooster Collective. He received the D.C. Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry in 1996 and again in 2000, and he earned a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2002, where he now teaches undergraduate creative writing.

Ausable Press will publish his next book, Alpha Zulu, later this year.