My Name Is Romero

Mexican-American spoken word artist David A. Romero’s most recent collection My Name Is Romero opens to a photograph of the poet with his siblings and grandparents to whom the collection is dedicated. In the introduction, he sets this photograph within the context of the America he grew up in: “My first memories of my last name stretch back to elementary school, and kids […] intentionally mispronouncing my name to make fun of me. However, I would notice over the years, that […] lots of people weren’t deliberately trying to ridicule my surname but mispronounced it regardless.”