V. B. Price | |
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 V. B. Price | |
| Born | Vincent Barrett Price August 30, 1940 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Education | University of New Mexico (B.A., 1962) |
| Genre | Poetry, journalism |
| Subject | Human rights, environment, architecture |
| Years active | 1962–present |
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| Children | 2 |
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| Relatives | Victoria Price (half-sister) |
Vincent Barrett Price (born August 30, 1940) is an American poet, human rights and environmental columnist, editor, reporter, publisher, and teacher.[1] His most recent works include the poetry volumes Lucretius and the Logic of Venus, Polishing the Mountain, or Catching Balance Just in Time: Selected Poems 2008–2020, Innocence Regained: Christmas Poems, and Memoirs of the World in Ten Fragments, and the nonfiction book The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He is the co-founder, with Benito Aragon, of the New Mexico Mercury, an online platform featuring news, commentary and analysis from a variety of experts and writers around New Mexico. Since January 2017, the Mercury Messenger has featured Price's online column of politics and the environment.
Price has taught off and on since 1976 in the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning, and as continuing faculty in the UNM Honors College from 1986 to 2014.
In 2021, he received the New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award "for contributions to the life of the poetry community in New Mexico and the Southwest."[2]
- ^ "V. B. PRICE | RESUME". Vbprice.com. Retrieved 2017-08-28.
- ^ "Gratitude". New Mexico Literary Arts. Retrieved 2021-08-18.