Levi Romero teaches in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. He is also the author of In the Gathering of Silence.

Levi Romero is a strange kind of wizard. He can walk up a New Mexico arroyo and come back with a mysterious object full of quotidian magic. Like a rusted tobacco can the grandfathers used to roll their smokes. And when you pry open the lid, you can hear their laughter and gossip coming out. That's what he does in poem after poem. I read his work and I learn again how to love this life. - Luis Alberto Urrea