The Edgar Bowers Award
Maximum 40 lines; any subject.
Form: a traditional poem that must be written in the spirit of Bowers’
verse. (The poem must use rhyme and/or meter in a generally recognized
and accepted poetic form, such as a sonnet, sestina, villanelle, etc.)
Form must be identified on poem.
Honors Georgia poet Edgar Bowers (1924-2000), whose compact and
rigorous formalism defined the spirit of his work. His poems expressed
themes of loss—of the past, of friends, of family, of humanity.