Richard Vargas: Editor's Selection for Outstanding Poem from New Mexico

The editors for the anthology New Poets of the American West awarded eleven $200.00 prizes, one each to a contributor from each of the eleven states represented in the anthology. The poem, "Baby Brother's Blues" by UNM English Department student Richard Vargas, was selected as the editors' selection out of all the poems published from New Mexico, which included poetry by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Joy Harjo, Leo Romero, Carol Moldaw, Jon Davis, and several others.