Next Up to The Mic: Jason Baldinger at The Fish Market

This week, Thom Francis welcomes Jason Baldinger to the mic. He performed shared is poetry at the Fish Market in Troy as part of the joint reading put on by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild, Hobo Camp Review, and Trailer Park Quarterly on October 11, 2025. +++++ Every year the Hudson Valley Writers Guild teams up with literary journals Trailer Park Quarterly and Hobo Camp Review for a reading to showcase a few of the amazing writers that contribute to their online and print publications. Last fall, Mary Panza hosted the annual featured reading at the Fish Market, a community arts project space run by the Arts Center in North Central Troy, NY. Poet, photographer, and TPQ co-editor Jason Baldinger was one those poets whose work - both poetry and photography - was highlighted that October afternoon. He shared a mix of poems including collaborations with poets James Benger and Rebecca Schumejda. Jason Baldinger is a poet and photographer from Pittsburgh, PA. He is the co-editor of Trailer Park Quarterly and co-runs The Odd-Month Reading Series. He’s penned twenty books of poetry the newest of which include, American Aorta (OAC Books) and, Waiting on Hummingbirds with Kansas poet James Benger (Their fourth together) His first book of photography, Lazarus (OAC Books), was released in 2023. His photography can also be found in the ekphrastic collaboration, "Hope is a Prison" with poet Rebecca Schumejda (OAC Books), and "The Night Window" (Kung Fu Treachery). His poems and photos have appeared across a wide variety of online sites and print journals. You can hear him read from various books on Bandcamp and on lps by The Gotobeds and Theremonster.