Levi Romero September 7, 2021 4:30pm to 5:30pm PDT "Mi Querencia: A Narrative Cruise through the Manito Homeland."

Levi Romero is an American poet. He received his M.A. in Architecture from the University of New Mexico. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at the University of New Mexico. Levi Romero is a Nuevomexicano from the Embudo Valley, His first language was New Mexican Spanish and the manito dialect of the region. The cultural and geographical landscapes of the Embudo Valley influences many of Romero's early and later works. Romero has received numerous awards, including the PBS Bill Moyers Language of Life Award. He recently was named the state's Inaugural Poet Laureate in 2020. He has published poems and prose in journals and anthologies and is the author of In the In the Gathering of Silence, A Poetry of Remembrance, Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland (2013), and Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland (2020). To watch the zoom presentation by registering in advance by emailing TJAEHN@UNM.EDU to be added to the attendee list. Zoom information will be sent 2 days ahead of each lecture.