Levi Romero
Poet Laureate of New Mexico, 2020–2023
Levi Romero is a bilingual poet whose language is of the Manito dialect of northern New Mexico. He is from the Embudo Valley of northern New Mexico. Romero authored A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works (University of New Mexico Press, 2008) and In the Gathering of Silence (West End Press, 1996).
With Michelle Otero, he coedited New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023 (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2023). In 2020, Romero was selected as the inaugural poet laureate of New Mexico. He is an associate professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at the University of New Mexico.