Mi Querencia: A Narrative Cruise Through the Manito Homeland

A poetry reading by

Levi Romero

(Professor Emeritus of Chicana/o Studies, University of New Mexico)

Wednesday, December 10, 6:00-7:30pm

457 Schermerhorn Extension

All are warmly invited to attend a special evening of Chicanx poetry by Levi Romero, inaugural Poet Laureate of New Mexico and author of In the Gathering of Silence (1996), A Poetry of Remembrance (2008), and Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland (2013). In stark and loving detail, Romero’s writing traces the tangled histories of Spanish and U.S. imperialism in New Mexico, as well as the powerful connection to place (querencia) that has emerged among the region’s Indo-Hispano communities. Increasingly, Romero’s heritage work has placed him at the center of interdisciplinary conversations, including with archaeologists at Columbia University. Join us as Romero embarks on a cruise through the backroad stories of Nuevomexicano culture and history.

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, American Studies, and Spanish and Latin American Studies, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and the Columbia Center for Archaeology.