Aldo AmparÃ¡n

Aldo AmparÃ¡n is the author of Brother Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022), which won the Alice James Award in 2020 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2023. They are the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & CantoMundo. AmparÃ¡n’s work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The Georgia Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine & elsewhere.

Interviews

Aldo AmparÃ¡n

May 15, 2024

Vanishing as a Way of Resistance: A Conversation with Saúl Hernández

My job as a write is to first witness, and then record. It would be an injustice to these poems if they were not written from a place of vulnerability and truth.
Interviews

Aldo AmparÃ¡n

Dec 13, 2023

Every Line Break, an Elegy: A Conversation with Leslie Sainz

I feel strongly that our personal histories are made complete by their various discrepancies, not undermined by them.
Poetry

Aldo AmparÃ¡n

Apr 9, 2020

National Poetry Month Day 9: Aldo Amparán

We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

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Aldo AmparÃ¡n

Vanishing as a Way of Resistance: A Conversation with Saúl Hernández

Every Line Break, an Elegy: A Conversation with Leslie Sainz

National Poetry Month Day 9: Aldo Amparán