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Nearly a quarter century after inaugural state poet laureate Levi Romero began investigating the historic northern New Mexico village tradition of resolana, he reflects on how gathering spaces—and the art of plática, or casual but meaningful conversation—have changed in his hometown of Dixon. Or have they?

By Levi Romero / Photos by Don J. Usner

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