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Hampton Institute - Sin Fronteras: Dispatches from Mexico City

Nov 15-19, 2022 — A delegation of Chicano poets, artists, and intellectuals flew to Mexico City for five events over the course of four days across the city.

La Bottega del Barbieri - David A. Romero .. La Parola e'lava che danza

sguardo solare generoso .. uomo dalla fragorosa risata contagiosa ..

La Jornada Baja California - Somos de aquí y de allá; estamos y no nos vamos: poetas chicanos

Matt Sedillo, Iris de Anda, David A. Romero y Sonia Gutiérrez estuvieron en Tijuana invitados por el Cecut y en colaboración con el Instituto Cultural Mexicano de Los Ángeles.

La Izquierda Diario - Cultura Chicana. CDMX: Encuentro de poesía chicana rendirá homenaje a la escritora Gloria Anzaldúa

Organizado por Chicanxs sin fronteras, Tianguis Literario CDMX y Gorrión Editorial, este 15 de noviembre comienzan las actividades de Desfronterizxs. Homenaje a la escritora Gloria Anzaldúa. Encuentro de poesía chicana, mismo que reunirá a más de 15 poetas, artistas y académicos de México y Estados Unidos.

DURA :: Dundee University Review of the Arts - My Name Is Romero Review

Mexican-American spoken word artist David A. Romero’s most recent collection My Name Is Romero opens to a picture of the poet’s family to whom the collection is dedicated. In the introduction, he sets this photograph within the context of the America he grew up in:

The Pomonan - "What if we're the first Chicanos to ever go to Elba?"

"What if we're the first Chicanos to ever go to Elba?" Matt Sedillo, author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (FlowerSong Press, 2019) asked, as he and I sipped hot coffee at a blue table on a ferry cutting through the cool winds and waters of the Mediterranean...

SHOUTOUT LA - Meet David A. Romero | Independent Contractor and Spoken Word Artist

We had the good fortune of connecting with David A. Romero and we’ve shared our conversation below.

L.A. TACO - How this Chicano poet from Diamond Bar got into over 50 bookstores without a major deal

What has two thumbs and has gotten his book of poetry into 50 bookstores in Southern California without having landed any deal with a major publisher? This foo.

KTEP - Words on a Wire - David A. Romero

In this episode of Words on a Wire host, Tim Z. Hernandez interviews poet David Romero.

The Signpost - Bringing in hope with Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month has begun, and in celebration, Weber State University has a month full of events planned starting Sept. 15 and continuing until Oct. 15.

USC Trojan Family - One Mexican American’s Identity Struggle: Confronting Race and Belonging

Thoughts on speaking Spanish and passing as white all come out in a starkly honest Q&A with spoken word artist and USC alum David A. Romero.

Ocean State Review - ART, IDENTITIES, AND REFLECTION IN DAVID A. ROMERO’S MY NAME IS ROMERO

David A. Romero’s My Name Is Romero is a funny, dark, investigatory look at what it means to be Latinx in our present moment. Romero also powerfully balances how one is looked at, looks back, and is constantly in the process of creating identities through the practice of art.

Public Intellectuals - An interview with David A. Romero author of “My Name Is Romero”

David A. Romero is a Mexican-American spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA. Romero is the author of “My Name Is Romero” (FlowerSong Press 2020). Romero is the second poet to be featured on All Def Digital. Romero has appeared at over 75 colleges and universities in over 30 different states in the U.S.

Grist - Poetry Review

There are many occasions that prompt us to introduce ourselves: over the phone, in an email, at a business meeting, for a friendly get-together, on our first day at a new job. The typical introduction requires that we share our names with others, and sometimes this is as far as it gets before it gets uncomfortable, whether that’s because of mispronunciation or mistaken assumption.

Cultural Daily - David A. Romero’s My Name Is Romero

I have never attended one of David A. Romero’s spoken word performances, but when the quarantine is lifted, it will be one of the first things that I do. His work on the page is extraordinary, and I can only imagine the life he brings to it as a professional spoken word artist.

Literary Cultures - My Name Is Romero: Book Review

BOLD, BOMBASTIC, BEAUTIFUL AND WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW.

The/temz/Review

In his new collection, David Anthony Romero, a spoken-word Mexican American artist and slam award winner, traces the journey of his search for an identity, starting with his name: Romero. He is not Romeo and is not Italian but Spanish or, more precisely, Mexican; his name is a reminder of the archbishop Oscar Romero and the artist Sonia Romero.

LA TACO - THE 2020 L.A. TACO BOOK GUIDE: 32 L.A.-CENTERED BOOKS

If COVID-19 was good for anything, it’s for reading. When the March rain and quarantine came, I got the chance to read all the books I wanted. This book list centers around Los Angeles and overlaps with creative nonfiction, poetry, urbanism, California history, music, and cultural studies.

North American Review - Toward Solidarity

Some Latino poets like Willie Perdomo dish out the grit of living on the margins with superb poetical musical cadence in his 2014 The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: Poems. Other writers like Daniel Borzutzky—a 2016 National Book Award Winner for The Performance of Becoming Human—immortalize the monumental horror of terror and torture of being “Othered.”

Pine Hills Review - “We have a duty to our ancestors to survive”: An Interview with David A. Romero

David A. Romero is a Mexican-American spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA and the author of full length poetry collection My Name Is Romero which came out this year from FlowerSong Press. While reading My Name Is Romero I found my journey through the book to be tumultuous, parts I loved and parts that didn’t necessarily sit right with me.