By Associated Press – ABQJournal.com – Photo: University Of New Mexico.
Photo: Levi Romero was chosen as the state’s inaugural poet laureate.
Santa Fe – New Mexico has chosen as its first poet laureate a bilingual Spanish-English writer and Chicano studies professor who will create a podcast of his encounters with wordsmiths and performers. Levi Romero, a native of Dixon in the Embudo Valley of northern New Mexico, has won a long list of regional awards for publication of his free-verse poetry.
