Aldo Amparán 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. Amparán's work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The Georgia Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine & elsewhere.
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.