Next Up to The Mic: Andy Fogle at The Fish Market

This week, Thom Francis welcomes poet Andy Fogle to the mic. He was one of the eight featured poets who read their work at The Fish Market in Troy last fall. +++++ Andy Fogle read at the Eight Poets event on October 11, 2025, at The Fish Market in Troy, presented by Trailer Park Quarterly, Hobo Camp Review, Paper Moon bookstore, and the Hudson Valley Writers Guild. He shared poems about family and abolitionist John Brown, along with other work. Fogle is the author of Mother Countries, Across from Now, and seven chapbooks. A 2021 Saratoga Arts grant recipient, his work has appeared in Best New Poets 2018, Tahoma Literary Review, and Potomac Review. He is the poetry editor at Salvation South and teaches English at Bethlehem Central High School.