Insight New Mexico - Jessica Helen Lopez

June 05, 2014

By V.B. Price

V.B. Price talks with Albuquerque's newest Poet Laureate, Jessica Helen Lopez, about transitioning into her new role and her vision for the position.

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V.B. Price

V.B. Price is editor and co-founder of New Mexico Mercury. He is the former editor of Century Magazine and New Mexico Magazine, former city editor of the New Mexico Independent, and long-time columnist for the late Albuquerque Tribune. His latest book is The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He retired as the editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at UNM Press in 2010. He has taught in the UNM Honors Program since l986.