William Baer a recent Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of sixteen books, including “Bocage” and Other Sonnets, The Ballad Rode into Town, Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets, Writing Metrical Poetry and Classic American Films: Conversations with the Screenwriters. He is a past recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the T.S. Eliot Poetry Award and a Fulbright in Portugal.