Guide to the Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr. papers, 1969-1997 Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr. C0046


Descriptive Summary
Repository	George Mason University. Special Collections Research Center.
Creator	Jay Bradford Fowler, 1951-1999
Title	Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr. papers
Date	1969-1997
Physical Characteristics	53.75 linear feet(43 boxes)
Abstract	This collection contains poems and manuscripts by Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr. It includes scrapbooks, photographs, notes, and videotapes.
Collection number	C0046
Language	English

Biographical Information

Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 7, 1951. In 1987, he received a Bachelor of Arts in English at George Mason University where he was editor of The George Mason Review. That same year Fowler won the American Poetry Association's Grand Prize and two other awards in their Winter 1987 National Poetry Competition. A prolific and well-recognized poet, his poems have appeared in national magazines, such as The American Poetry Review, America, Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry (1984 and 1988), Bouillabaisse, The Classical Bulletin, Yankee, and Cosmic Trend of Canada. Books by Fowler include Psalm Book for the White Butterfly (1985), Writing Down the Light (1987), Who Will Remember? (1989), The Onlooker (1990), Living at the Light House (1990), Laying Siege to the Light (1991), Looking Back on Consciousness (1993), The Longing For Paradise (1994), and The Soul (1995).

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