Kite / Baaxal Tuuch'bil Ju'un / Papalote

El recuerdo es un papalote. Poco a poco le sueltas, disfrutas su vuelo. En lo m?s alto se rompe el hilo de tu memoria y te sientas a presenciar corno lo posee la distancia. Briceida Cuevas Cob was born in 1969 in Tepakan, Calkim, in the province of Campeche on the Yucatan Peninsula. She writes in both Yucatec Maya and Spanish languages. Her poetry has been published in several literary magazines and newspapers in Quitana Roo, Campeche, Yucatan, and Mexico City. A member of the literary group Genali since 1992, she participated in the Poetry Workshops in the Mayan Tongue at the arts center of Calkim, coordinated by Waldemar Noh Tzec, from 1992 to 1994. In 1996 she received a scholarship from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes para Escritores en Lenguas Indi'genas and is a founding member of the Asociaci?n de Escritores en Lenguas Indi'genas in Mexico. In 2002 she took part in the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam and has also participated in conferences and symposia on indigenous language and literature in Spain, France, the United States, and Mexico. She has given extensive readings worldwide, including Harvard University, the Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of the American Indian in

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