Carol Rose Little

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.

A Conversation with Ch’ol Poet Juana Peñate Montejo

By Carol Rose Little, Charlotte Friedman
Carol Rose Little, Charlotte Friedman

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...
Three Poems from Chiapas

By Juana Peñate Montejo

March 2022
Juana Peñate Montejo

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...