William Baer

William Baer is the author of sixteen books, including Borges & Other Sonnets; Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets; and Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets. For fifteen years (1990-2004), he was the editor of The Formalist: A Journal of Metrical Poetry, and he is currently a contributing editor for Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry. A past recipient of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fulbright, a Guggenheim, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award, he is a professor of creative writing and cinema at the University of Evansville in southern Indiana.