Author Archives | Levi Romero
Levi Romero’s work focuses on cultural landscapes studies and sustainable building methodologies of northern New Mexico, including centuries-old traditions of acequia systems, molinos, salas and other agrarian and cultural contexts related to the upper Rio Grande watershed. His documentary work is often presented through an interdisciplinary studies format that includes lecture, video/audio, and literary presentation. This ongoing series in New Mexico Mercury is dedicated to his and his student’s oral history and documentation work in the Chicana/o Studies program at the University of New Mexico.
Romero is the published author of A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works, In the Gathering of Silence, and the forthcoming, Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland. He was awarded the post of New Mexico Centennial Poet in 2012.
Alimentando el Alma Nuevo Mexicano
Who says there aren't anymore tortilleros? In this video feature, Alimentando el Alma, Andrew Herring demonstrates various traditional Nuevo Méxicano recipes and throws in a memorable cuento for added measure. Andrew produced this piece as a student enrolled in my New Mexico Villages and Cultural Landscapes course...
Continue reading...Jose Domingo Sandoval: A film by Natalie Brigance
02. June 2013
The spiritual essence of place and people through a resolana conversation with the filmmaker's father at his home in his native village of Truchas, NM.
Continue reading...Un Trip Down to the South Valley - A film by Ben McCallum
06. May 2013
Ben McCallum's digital cuento, Un Trip Down to the South Valley, takes us on a visual viaje celebrating Albuquerque's south valley pride and heritage.
Continue reading...Going home homeless
17. April 2013
Going Home Homeless is a personal account of a graduate student who returns home to document the history and culture of the acequia that has sustained her village for centuries...
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08. July 2013
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