Carol Rose Little is an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. She has been working with Ch’ol communities in Chiapas, Mexico, since 2015 and holds a PhD in linguistics from Cornell University.
Tumbalá, Chiapas / Photo by Carol Rose Little
The following interview was conducted in Ch’ol at the poet’s house in Tumbalá, Mexico, on January 7, 2022. Little and Friedman’s translations...
Ch’ol embroidered shirts / Photo by Diana Laura Montejo
I Am the Alphabet
They say, grass born in the forest,
my body holds the freshness of mountains.
I have absorbed the garden’s blossomin...