Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr. papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
George Mason University
2400 Fenwick Library
Special Collections Research Center
Fenwick Library MS2FL
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Mieko Palazzo
Phone: (703) 993-2220
Fax: (703) 993-2669
Restrictions:

This collection is unprocessed. Please email speccoll@gmu.edu if you interested in accessing the collection.

Terms of access:

The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)

Preferred citation:

Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr. papers, C0046, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
53.75 Linear Feet 43 boxes
Creator:
Fowler, Jay Bradford, 1951-
Abstract:
This collection contains poems and manuscripts by Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr. It includes scrapbooks, photographs, notes, and videotapes.
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr. papers, C0046, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains poems and manuscripts by Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr. It includes scrapbooks, photographs, notes, and videotapes.

Biographical / historical:

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).

Acquisition information:
Collection donated by Jay Bradford Fowler in 1996-1998. Additional donation by Kevin G. Summers in 2013.
Processing information:

EAD markup completed by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty in April 2009. This collection is unprocessed.