Briceida Cuevas, also known as Briceida Cuevas Cob (born Tepakán,

Calkiní Calkiní (Yucatec Maya: "throat of the sun") is a city in the Mexico, Mexican mexican state, state of Campeche. It is situated at the northern tip of the state, on the central western coast the Yucatán Peninsula. It serves as the municipal seat ...

Campeche Campeche, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Campeche, is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, make up the Administrative divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. Located in southeast Mexico, it is bordered by the sta ...

, Mexico, July 12, 1969) is a Mayan poet. She writes poems about everyday life in

Yucatec Maya Yucatec Maya ( ; referred to by its speakers as or ) is a Mayan languages, Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, including part of northern Belize. There is also a significant diasporic community of Yucatec Maya speakers in San Fra ...

, many of which have been translated into Spanish, French and English. She is a member of Escritores en Lenguas Indigenas A.C., and a corresponding member of the

Academia Mexicana de la Lengua The Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (variously translated as the Mexican Academy of Language, the Mexican Academy of the Language, the Mexican Academy of Letters, or glossed as the Mexican Academy of the Spanish Language; acronym AML) is the cor ...

Selected works

* ''Flor y canto: cinco poetas indígenas del sur'', INI/UNESCO, Tabasco, 1993. *''In pákat yétel júntul t'el: Tumbén Ikʼtʼanil ich Mayaʼ Tʼan'' ''(Poesía contemporánea en lengua maya)'', España, 1994. *''U yokʼol auat pekʼ (El quejido del perro en su existencia''), Casa Internacional del Escritor, Quintana Roo, 1995. *''Jeʼ bix kʼin (Como el sol''), 1998. * ''Las lenguas de América. Recital de poesía'', UNAM, La Pluralidad Cultural en México, 2005. * ''Voci di Antiche Radici, dieci poeti indigeni del Méssico,'' Trieste, Italia, 2005. *''Tiʼ u billil in nookʼ /Del dobladillo de mi ropa,'' 2008''.'' *''U t'íibta'al cháak : u múuch ts'íibil ik'il t'aano'ob yéetel tsikbalo'ob ich Maya yétel kaselan = Escribiendo la lluvia : antología literaria en lengua maya-español''. Campeche, 2012. *''Lenguas de Mexico: Maya'' (audio poetry reading by Briceida Cuevas Cob), 2019.

Selected works translated into English

* Four poems by Briceida Cuevas Cob (from ''U yok’ol auat pek’ ti kuxtal pek’, he growl of the dog in its existence' *Two Poems '' ite'' and ''Owl' *''School''

References

1969 births Living people 20th-century Mexican poets Mayan-language poets People from Campeche {{Mexico-poet-stub