Insight New Mexico - Levi Romero on Juan Estevan Arellano

December 11, 2014

By V.B. Price

Professor and poet Levi Romero remembers author, researcher, and land and water advocate Juan Estevan Arellano. Romero grew up around Arellano in the Embudo Valley and witnessed the "resolana" of what would be called the "Embudo renaissance" by Rudolfo Anaya.

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V.B. Price

V.B. Price is editor and co-founder of New Mexico Mercury. He is the former editor of Century Magazine and New Mexico Magazine, former city editor of the New Mexico Independent, and long-time columnist for the late Albuquerque Tribune. His latest book is The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He retired as the editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at UNM Press in 2010. He has taught in the UNM Honors Program since l986.