Charlotte Friedman

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Charlotte Friedman is a poet, translator, and teacher. Her poetry has been published in journals such as Timberline Review, Intima, and elsewhere. Friedman and Carol Rose Little’s translations of Ch’ol poetry have been published in World Literature Today and elsewhere.

Two Ch’ol Poems
By Miriam Esperanza Hernández Vázquez
September 2023
Miriam Esperanza Hernández Vázquez
Photo by Joan C Wrenn / Flickr K’uxbä kolel Junp’ej k’iñ tyi chilbeñtyiyoñ jkolel. CHe’ tyi ksäklä tyi ktyaja tyi ipaty ibäk’ juloñib, buts, butsñabä ibuts’il. …
A Conversation with Ch’ol Poet Juana Peñate Montejo
By Carol Rose Little , By 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…
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 blossoming,…