V.B. Price

V.B. Price and Cat Byron, photo by Gloria Graham, taken during the video taping of Add-Verse

Vincent Barrett "V.B." Price (born August 30, 1940) is an American poet, human rights and environmental columnist, editor, journalist, architectural critic, novelist and teacher.[1] He is co-founder of New Mexico Mercury, an online platform featuring news, commentary and analysis from a variety of experts and writers around New Mexico. Price is an emeritus lecturer in the University of New Mexico's Honors College, where he has taught since 1986 and at UNM's School of Architecture and Planning. He teaches ancient Greek and Roman literature in translation, modern poetry, urban studies, and New Mexico environmental studies.

Biography

Price was born on August 30, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, the only son of actor Vincent Price (1911–1993) and his first wife, actress Edith Barrett (1907–1977). He graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1962 with a B.A. in anthropology.[2] In 1969 Price married the artist Rini.

Writing

He has been writing in New Mexico for over 53 years. Price's poetry and prose has been published in more than 70 national and international publications since 1962. He was the architecture editor for Artspace Magazine of Albuquerque and Los Angeles, and the former editor of New Mexico Magazine.[3] Price was the city editor for the New Mexico Independent (print publication) and worked for the publication through the 1970s.[4] He was the founding editor of Century Magazine, which ran from 1980–1983. He was architecture critic at the Albuquerque Journal in the mid 1980s. He wrote for the Albuquerque Tribune from 1978 till the paper closed in 2008, most notably as a weekly columnist. Price was an editorial contributor to the New Mexico Independent (online publication) from 2008-2009.

He was the series editor of the Mary Burritt Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press from 2004 to 2012. As an editor, he has brought work of more than 500 New Mexican authors, poets, and scholars into print.

In November 2011, UNM Press published Price's latest book, The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project. In the book, Price analyzes fifty years of newspaper articles and government reports to reveal the environmental toll which New Mexico has paid for decades of military munitions testing, uranium mining, and population growth: unsustainable development, air and water pollution by multinational corporations and undue strain on the state's limited water supply, to name a few.[5] Framing New Mexico as, "a microcosm of global ecological degradation,"[6] Price explores the impacts and systematic breaches of public trust by some of the pervading power structures affecting the environment around the world: the military-industrial complex, multinational corporation's impact on local natural resources, and the lack of consideration of long-term environmental consequences in development planning. Speaking with Gene Grant on KNME's, New Mexico In Focus, Price states that the Manhattan Project both transformed and deformed the American West. It elevated New Mexico into one of the intellectual and scientific epicenters for the Cold War, but it also resulted in 2,100 waste sites at Los Alamos National Laboratories in Northern New Mexico and 400 waste sites at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque.[7] Marc Simmons of the Santa Fe New Mexican calls the book, "a stellar compendium focused on the state's slide toward ecological degradation."[8]

Recognition

Books

Television

Poetry readings

Personal life

Price was born in Los Angeles but has lived in Albuquerque's North Valley for over 47 years. He has been married to artist Rini Price since 1969 and the two have collaborated since the early 1970s with Rini creating artwork for the majority of Price's books of poetry.[18] The Prices have two sons, Jody Price of Santa Fe, NM, and Keir Price of Kinnelon, NJ and two grandchildren, Ryan Price and Talia Price.[3]

References

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