Pages from a folding Maya book, the Dresden Codex. The Dresden Codex is one of four existing codices (named for the cities where they are located: Paris, Dresden and Madrid, and the Grolier Codex). The books were written by Maya scribes in hieroglyphs on paper made from bark of Ficus (fig) trees (kop in Maya language). Ink was coal based, and writing instruments were small bones of birds or cactus thorns. Unfortunately, most Maya books from the Yucatan were ordered destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors around 1562. More about the Dresden Codex here and here

2011 - Tulum Faculty                                          Featured Readings: Poetas Mexicanos

Diane Wakoski                                                                Luis Cortés Bargalló
Jerome Rothenberg                                                        Rocío Cerón                    
Paul Hoover                                                                    Carla Faesler
Jen Hofer                                                                        Feliciano Sánchez Chan (Maya language)
Susan Rich
Mark Weiss                                                                
Jonathan Harrington (2 workshops for those not going on day trips)


Previous Faculty                                     Previous Readings: Poetas Mexicanos

2010  -  Merida                                                                                                                                                          Anne Waldman                                                         Pura López Colomé                                                                  Mark Doty                                                                 José Vicente Anaya                                                                 Pedro Serrano                                                          Briceida Cuevas Cob    (Maya language)                                       Martin Espada                                                          Pedro Serrano                                                                   Jonathan Harrington 

2009  -  Merida                                                                     
C.D. Wright                                                              Coral Bracho
Bob Holman                                                             Valerie Mejer
Mónica de la Torre                                                   Briceida Cuevas Cob                                                             Forrest Gander                                                        Mónica de la Torre                                                                     Jack Collom                                                                                                                                                        Jonathan Harrington


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