Reid Baer

Reid Baer is an award-winning American writer in poetry.
Early career
Reid studied at Brigham Young University in Theatre. He lived in New York City and worked for Benton & Bowles Advertising. He has also worked as a newspaper reporter, covering the crime beat and city government, for Media General.
Published works
Baer has had more than 200 poems published individually, as well as a collection of poetry called “The Man from Four Quarters”, which has been endorsed by Dr. Robert L. Moore, John Lee.
Malidoma Some, and Coleman Barks. His first published book was Kill the Story.
Baer publishes interviews of celebrities at the publicly-available online ezine menstuff. Baer has interviewed many famous people at menstuff, including Jim Belushi, Senator John McCain, John Bradshaw, QB Terry Bradshaw, and Robert Bly.
Awards
*Baer won a national playwrighting award from Eastern Illinois University for “A Lyon’s Tale", which has had staged productions in New York, Utah, Illinois and California
*Reid was selected as Editor's Pick of the Week on YouTube on April 4, 2007.
Internet presence and controversies
Reid Baer has had wide publication of his works on numerous internet sites.
Baer prolifically posted videos on YouTube, under the pseudonym NewWarriorMan, where his work had received wide exposure. Baer's YouTube videos logged more than 1,000,000 views.
For 5 years, beginning in 2003, Baer was the paid editor of New Warrior Journal, a members-only online magazine for The Mankind Project. In November 2008, Baer was terminated by MKP, for persistent unauthorized use of an MKP trademark as his YouTube user name, and for profane video's that he published on YouTube. In an apparently unrelated action, Baer's YouTube account and all of his video's were also deleted by YouTube because of a supposed violation of their spam policy.
Baer also publicly reads his poetry at men’s gatherings across the country.
In addition to writing his own work, Baer is also a well-known reviewer on several online literary websites.
Personal
He was born on November 21, 1953 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has lived in Indiana, New York, California, Idaho, Ohio, and Venezuela. He currently resides in Reidsville, North Carolina. Baer has been married to wife Patricia for eight years, and he has three grown children.

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