MEXICAN AMERICAN SPOKEN WORD ARTIST
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Aug 11, 2025
El Martillo Press: poetry for healing and defiance
When poets Matt Sedillo and David Romero launched El Martillo Press in June 2023, they set out to create more than just a publishing house. This Latino-owned press is built on the belief that poetry can challenge injustice, serve as a form of protest, and unite communities.
May 23, 2025
Riverside Art Museum: The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture - Viva Poesía Draws Large Crowd
Riverside, CA – The voices of poets rang out through a microphone and echoed upon the brightly-colored canvasses of paintings and the bronze of sculptures, and into the ears of the approximately hundred and fifty, both sitting and standing in attendance, at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry, as part of Viva Poesía: the first live poetry reading event in the museum’s history.
Nov 7, 2022
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.
Sep 7, 2022
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:
Aug 29, 2022
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...
Jun 12, 2021
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.
Mar 23, 2021
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.
Mar 23, 2021
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.
Jan 27, 2021
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.
