Arts & Letters
Will Coppage is more than music. He is an award winning Mississippi artist and author.
Creative C.V.
VISUAL ARTS
2024
Delta Artists Association, Member.
Mississippi Arts Commission, 2024 Mini Grant Recipient.
2023
Delta Artists Association, Member.
Mississippi Arts Commission, 2023 Mini Grant Recipient.
2022
Tishomingo Arts Council, Juried Show, “View from Woodall,” virtual.
Tishomingo Arts Council, Print Anthology, “View from Woodall.”
DAA Annual Member Exhibit, Juried Show. 2nd Place Overall.
Delta Artists Association, Member.
2021
The Little Yellow Building, Juried Show, “The Mississippi Garden of Rhythm and
Blues.”
Delta Artists Association, member.
The Little Yellow Building, Juried Show, “7 Deadly Sins,” virtual.
Mississippi Arts Commission, 2021 Mini Grant Recipient.
Tishomingo Arts Council, Juried Show, “March Arts/April Ekphrastic Poetry
Competition,” virtual.
POETRY PUBLICATIONS
Chapbooks:
Fantasies of Men, Main Street Rag, 2013 (Click on link to purchase)
Borrowing Night From Day (Collection of Broadsides), Yellow Flag Press, 2012
Journals:
Passages North, “Fantasies of Men” Vol. 34.1
The Pinch, “Crossing,” Issue 32.2)
Rougarou, “End of Season,” Fall 2012, Vol. 8, Issue 2
Tapestry, “River Monster,” Issue 24)
The Greensboro Review, “Work Song,” Spring 2012, No. 91
Deep South Magazine, “The Levee,” April 2012
The Pedestal: “The Continuing Story of Robert Johnson,” Issue 68
Oxford American, “Last Call at the Walnut Street Blues Bar,” 2011, No. 75
Cream City Review, “The Last September,” Spring/Summer 2011 Digital
Americana Magazine, “The Night Before Basic Training,” “Training
on the 4th of July,” “American Ghazel,” “My First War,” The Myth of the
Fighting Cocks,” July 2011
Word Riot, “Your Name Repeats Like Marching Elephants,” Oct. 2010
The Blotter, “Homecoming Game,” “My Grandpa Reminds Me of Charles
Bukowski,” Oct. 2010
You Must Be This Tall to Ride, “A Mile Off the Highway,” Summer 2010
Mikrokosmos, “Funeral,” “Funeral Song,” “Good Luck New Year's Day,”
Spring 2010
The Arena, “Catfish, Big as Volkswagens,” “The Day I Ignored God,”
“Christmas as Their House,” 2009
Blue Earth Review, “Once in Mississippi the Moon was Hidden,” “Returning
Home on First Leave,” Spring 2009
DecomP, “Borrowing Night From Day,” Nov. 2008
Atlantis, “Chromosomal Trophy” (2008), “I Watched My Grandmother
Die” (2008), “Senior Year” (2007), “If You Tell It Will Never Come True” (2007)
FICTION PUBLICATIONS
Word Riot, “Out on Shellmound,” Dec. 2011.
EDUCATION
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
Master of Fine Arts | Creative Writing
Master of Arts | English
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University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC
Bachelor of Fine Arts