Andrés Cerpa

Biography

Andrés Cerpa is the author of two books of poetry, the debut collection Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy (Alice James, 2019) and The Vault (Alice James, 2021), which was longlisted for a National Book Award and celebrated as one of the best poetry books of 2021 by the New York Times. He was raised in Staten Island, NY. 

See Work

POETRY / Fall 2022

In a Country

By Andrés Cerpa

And when the rains came 
   like lean wolves 

we were ready.

POETRY / Fall 2022

Machete

By Andrés Cerpa

I am more than the world you asked me to be— 

POETRY / Fall 2022

Late Work

By Andrés Cerpa

I feel compelled to give you an ending, a promise of hope