dgar Bowers wrote some of the most hauntingly beautiful poems of his generation. Born in Georgia in 1924, he served during the Second World War in Bavaria with the counter intelligence corps of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. After the war, he completed his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina and then earned his doctorate at Stanford University under the tutelage of the eminent poet and critic Yvor Winters.
Bowers taught for 33 years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and published five collections of poems. His poetry earned him several distinctions, including the Bollingen Prize—an honor that placed him in the company of W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens. Alfred A. Knopf published his Collected Poems in 1997. Bowers died in San Francisco in 2000.
The conference brings together poets, critics, and friends of Edgar Bowers for a day of scholarly discussions and readings of his poetry. In addition, UCLA Library Special Collections will launch an exhibition of items culled from its extensive Edgar Bowers archive.

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