Jaime Chavez is a native New Mexican Poet, community organizer, filmmaker, who resides in the Manzano Mountains, east of Albuquerque.  He is completing a collection of poems for publication, (2017) entitled 1 Cosmic Cycle. He is published in a number of New Mexico Anthologies and has served as a Poeta del Pueblo in his community historically, to preserve NM’s culture and way of life.  Every year he organizes the Day of the Dead celebration in local theatres with cutting edge poets, musicians, and artists. He just wrote and directed a film entitled Las Acequias, Lifeblood of NM a 7 Caves, Windows of Aztlan Production.