Hubert Matiúwàa
Hubert Matiúwàa (1986) belongs to the Mè’phàà culture. He earned undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero and in Creative Writing from the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, and a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from UNAM. In 2016, he was awarded the first Cenzontle Prize in Indigenous Languages, and in 2017 he received the Fifth Indigenous Literatures of America Prize (PLIA) and the State Prize for Young Poets from the State of Guerrero. He is the author of Xtámbaa: Piel de Tierra (Pluralia Ediciones/Secretaría de Cultura, 2016), Tsína rí nàyaxà’: Cicatriz que te mira (Pluralia Ediciones/Secretaría de Cultura de la CDMX, 2017), Ìjín gò’ò Tsítsídiín: Las Sombrereras de Tsítsídiín (INALI/Secretaría de Cultura, 2018), and Mañuwìín: Cordel Torcido (Universidad de Guadalajara/Departamento de Estudios en Lenguas Indígenas, 2018).
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They embroider / the clothing of every animal: / to the sheep / they give cotton / so it may be cloud's brother, / for the racoon, the name gòn' / and with the mask / they remind it that its... -
The problem came with its dead, / lots of abuse for not speaking the language. / There was always a reason / to strip our mountain from us piece by piece,they said: / “We ought to leave the eye of Xtó... -
It can take days to climb a mountain, or the blink of an eye. On the way, the mountain will show you, little by little, her body. What makes her habitable in spite of her inhospitality. At her peak, y... -
We introduced ourselves by talking about our readings, the work of Miguel Leon-Portilla, Carlos Lenkersdorf, Alfredo López Austin, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Carlos Montemayor, Jacques Derrida and Jean-... -
Let us offer the word and gather a face, / let bone listen to the grey rock, / let us spread the great corn sheaf’s breath / and share a path with other flesh that speaks, / people from the next ridge...
