Liuvan Herrera Carpio (Fomento, 1981) is a poet, literary scholar, critic, and editor. He received a degree in literature from the Central University in Las Villas and in Latin American culture from the University for the Arts. He is currently a professor at the National University of Chimborazo. He has published four books of poetry and two books of essays. He lives in Riobamba, Ecuador.
Generation Zero: New Cuban Poetry
Jan/Feb 2018
Tiger
From the Spanish. for Virgilio, before being devoured The tiger skin is a trap. When my son opens his eyes, like a shriek before the animal, he doesn't realize that […]
Generation Zero: New Cuban Poetry
Jan/Feb 2018
Carnival Irons
From the Spanish. Forged in clandestine smithies they travel on ominous trailers through the national scar, artifacts for amusement, in neighborhood carnivals assembled in just an hour. Pieces of […]
Generation Zero: New Cuban Poetry
Jan/Feb 2018
Saturday Shroud
From the Spanish. When hanging out the sheets like newly drowned bodies an adjacent shirt shrugs its shoulders. The anointed one, no name worth remembering, offers up to the […]
Generation Zero: New Cuban Poetry
Jan/Feb 2018
Quail
From the Spanish. A downpour of decapitated quail stone the hunger of those crossing the desert. A rain of headless birds is a headless rain. What forest was left […]