Poet Lore and The Writer’s Center present a FREE virtual chat about the craft of poetry! We’re joined by Aldo Amparán to discuss their new collection, THE HOUSE HAS TEETH. Aldo is in conversation with Emily Holland, poet and editor of Poet Lore, America’s oldest poetry journal.
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Aldo Amparán is the author of Brother Sleep, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2023. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & CantoMundo. Born & raised in the border cities of El Paso, TX, USA, & Ciudad Juárez, CHIH, Mexico, Amparán’s work has been featured in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review Online, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, & elsewhere.
About THE HOUSE HAS TEETH
Aldo Amparán returns with a collection of surreal borderland poems about the queer and Latinx body as a site of politicization. Haunted by the author’s personal ghosts of violent trauma and the insidious pain of refusing to heal, THE HOUSE HAS TEETH (September 2026, Alice James Books) asks whether it’s possible to unknow—and transcend—the nightmares that creep around the edges of our adult psyches. Amparán writes with tenderness and impressive vulnerability about unlearning gendered cultural expectations of cruelty and brutality in order to break patterns of aggression and finally heal the shattered self.
Influenced by horror films, ghost stories, and the fever dream of violence on TV screens and in the media, THE HOUSE HAS TEETH is a poetic haunting about how to survive childhood assault in order to embrace love.
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