Max Vargas Poets’ Espresso newsletter RIP BIC—October-November 2007 Max Vargas was born in Lima, Peru. As internal conflict between guerrilla terrorist forces and government retaliation reached its height in 1992, his family fled Peru and found refuge in the United States. Raised in the California Bay Area, New England, and the California Central Valley, Max attends the University of the Pacific where he majors in Political Science and currently prepares himself for a semester abroad in Pau, France.