Briceida Cuevas Cob—Poetry Reading

Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
University of Oregon campus

An Indigenous Peoples in the Americas Event

Mayan and Spanish Bilingual Poetry Reading*

Briceida Cuevas Cob (1969) is a Mayan poet from Tepakán, Calkiní, Campeche, México. She has published several poetry books, U yok’ol awat peek’ (El quejido del perro / The dog’s moan) (1995), Je’ bix k’iin (Como el sol / Like The Sun) (1998), Ti’ u billil in nook’ (Del dobladillo de mi ropa / From My Clothes’ Hem) (2008). Her poems have been translated into French, Dutch, English and Italian. She is a founding member of the Mexican Association of Writers of Indigenous Languages.

* Poetry readings in languages other than English will have simultaneous translation and pamphlets with English versions of the poems will be distributed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT PROFESSOR CECILIA ENJUTO-RANGEL AT ENJUTO@UOREGON.EDU OR VISIT THE AMERICAS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD INITIATIVE WEBSITE, HTTP://UOAMERICAS.UOREGON.EDU.

Sponsored by the Americas in a Globalized World Initiative, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and Women of Color | Cosponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, the Office of Institutional Equity & Diversity, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies, the Department of English, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Northwest Indian Language Institute, the Honors College, the Latin American Studies Program, the Department of Education Studies, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Romance Languages