V.B. Price

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

V.B. Price (born August 30, 1940) is an American poet, historian, author, editor, teacher and long time political and environmental columnist.^[1] He is a member of the faculty at the University of New Mexico's University Honor's Program and is an adjunct associate professor at UNM's School of Architecture and Planning.

Writing career

Price graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1962 with a B.A. in Anthropology ^[2] and has been writing in New Mexico for over 40 years. Price's writing has appeared in over 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] and was the founding editor of Century Magazine which ran from 1980–1983. He wrote for the Albuquerque Tribune from 1978 till the paper closed in 2008, most notably as a weekly columnist. Price was most recently an editorial contributor to the New Mexico Independent (online publication). He is currently working on a book covering the environmental history of New Mexico and the complexities of human impact on our natural setting. The book will touch on the state's record of mining, agriculture, ranching, urban growth, water usage and water pollution.^[5]

Recognition

• 2003 – Citizen Planner of the Year award by the American Planning Association of New *Mexico.^[6]
• 2004 – Price's book, Albuquerque: A City At The End of the World, won the Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award for Historic Survey and *Research.^[7]
• 1999 – Humanist of the Year Award by the Humanist Society of New Mexico.^[8]
• 1996 – ACLU-NM First Amendment Award for excellence in journalism.^[3]
• 1989 – Friend of the Environment Award by the New Mexico Conservation Voters Alliance.
• 1984 – Award of Merit from the New Mexico Society of Architects for architectural criticism.
• 1975 – Governor's Cultural Properties Review Committee's award for his, "penetrating provocative editorials in defense of New Mexico's cultural environment."^[3]

Books

• Broken and Reset: Selected Poems 1966–2006, UNM Press, 2007
• The Oddity, UNM Press, 2004
• In Company: An Anthology of New Mexico Poetry Since 1960 (co-editor), UNM Press, 2004.
• Chaco Body, Artspace Press, 1992
• Albuquerque: A City at the End of the World, UNM Press, 1995, 2003
• The 7 Deadly Sins, La Alameda Press, 1997
• Anasazi Architecture and American Design, UNM Press,1996, co-edited with Baker Morrow
• Chaco Trilogy, La Alameda Press, 1998.
• Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscape of the American Southwest, Edited by V.B. Price and Baker Morrow, UNM Press, 2006

Personal life

Price was born in Los Angeles but has lived in Albuquerque's North Valley for over 40 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.^[9] The Price's have two sons and two grandchildren.^[3] He is the son of the late actor, art critic and renaissance man Vincent L. Price.

References

1. ^ [1]^{[dead link]}
2. ^ UNM Alumni Association Board of Directors honors four. Unm.edu (2002-02-06). Retrieved on 2011-04-17.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Chaco Trilogy Poems
4. ^ V.B. Price: Journal-Trib deal limited Albuquerque's alternative media : Columnists : Albuquerque Tribune. Abqtrib.com (2008-01-05). Retrieved on 2011-04-17.
5. ^ V.B. Price on The Oddity | Bookselling This Week. News.bookweb.org. Retrieved on 2011-04-17.
6. ^ NM APA 2003 Awards, Remarks by NM-APA Awards Committee. Docs.google.com. Retrieved on 2011-04-17.
7. ^ Historical Society of New Mexico. Hsnm.org. Retrieved on 2011-04-17.
8. ^ V. B. Price biography
9. ^ Contemporary Albuquerque: A Cyber Artspace: Exhibits: Death Self. Melodymock.com. Retrieved on 2011-04-17.

External links

• "Add-Verse" a poetry-photo-video project V.B. Price participated in

Persondata
Name	Price, V. B.
Alternative names
Short description	Poet and author of the environment
Date of birth	August 30, 1940
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California
Date of death
Place of death