 He is also the former poetry editor and film critic for "Crisis Magazine".Currently, he serves as the founding director of the St. Robert Southwell Institute, and previously he served as the director of the University of Evansville Press, the contributing editor at "Measure", the faculty director of "The Evansville Review", and the founding director of the Richard Wilbur Poetry Series, the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize.In 1995, William Baer received an N.E.A.