William Baer is author of The Unfortunates (New Odyssey), which received the 1997 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and his work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and The New Criterion. He is also the director of the Richard Wilbur Poetry Series, editor of The Formalist, and has edited two books for the University Press of Mississippi: Conversations with Derek Walcott (1996) and Elias Kazan: Interviews (2000). He lives in Evansville, Indiana.
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