Everything All At Once: Readings & Conversation with Four AJB Poets
Joseph Legaspi
Joseph Legaspi was born and raised in the Philippines; his family immigrated to Los Angeles when he was 12. He earned a BA at Loyola Marymount University and an MFA from New York University. Legaspi’s collections of poetry include Threshold (2017), Imago (2007), which won a Global Filipino Literary Award, and the chapbook Subways (2013). With Sarah Gambito, Legaspi cofounded Kundiman, a nonprofit that promotes and serves Asian American writers and writing.
Aldo Amparán
Aldo Amparán (pronouns: he/they) is a poet, writer, & translator born & raised in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, USA, & Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He is the author of Brother Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022) and winner of the 2020 Alice James Award. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & CantoMundo. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso, where he teaches.
J. Estanislao Lopez
J. Estanislao Lopez’s poetry has been published in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Poetry Magazine, and has appeared in anthologies such as BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext and the Bedford Compact Introduction to Literature. He earned an MFA from Warren Wilson Program for Writers and lives in Houston.
Janine Joseph
Janine Joseph is a formerly undocumented poet and librettist from the Philippines. She is the author of Decade of the Brain: Poems (AJB 2023) and Driving Without a License. Her poetry, essays, and critical writings have appeared in numerous publications. She's created commissioned work for the Houston Grand Opera/HGOco and Washington Master Chorale. A coorganizer for Undocupoets and MacDowell Fellow, she is an associate professor of creative writing at Oklahoma State University and the 2022–2023 Paul and Linda Austin Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech.
Ina Cariño
Ina Cariño is a Filipinx American poet with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears in Waxwing, New England Review, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals. Ina is a Kundiman fellow and a recipient of a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. In December of 2019, they founded a reading series, Indigena Collective, centering marginalized creatives in the community. Through their writing, Ina explores intergenerational nourishment, and the transformation of the brown body through space + time.
