Bill Mohr
Bill Mohr is an associate professor in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach. His creative and critical writing has appeared in dozens of magazines, including Antioch Review, Blue Mesa Review, Caliban Online, Chicago Review, Santa Monica Review, Sonora Review, Spot Literary Magazine, William Carlos Williams Review, ZYZZYVA, and 5 AM. As editor of Momentum Press from 1974 to 1988, he received four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and published two major anthologies of Southern California poets. His book and audio recording collections include Hidden Proofs, Vehemence, and Bittersweet Kaleidoscope. His literary history of the Los Angeles poetry scenes in the second half of the 20th century, “Hold-Outs: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance 1948-1992,” was published by the University of Iowa Press in December, 2011.
