Aldo Amparán returns to Alice James Books with The House Has Teeth

 

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Alice James Books welcomes back poet Aldo Amparán for their second collection, The House Has Teeth.

Aldo Amparán’s second AJB poetry collection, The House Has Teeth, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in September 2026. Welcome home, Aldo!

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

 

Also by Aldo Amparán:

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