Aldrin Badiola
poet or like, something
Aldrin Badiola (he/him) is a Filipino poet who has a perpetually messy bedroom. He loves cheesecake. He is currently procrastinating doing the next big thing. Catch him listening to country or disco, or writing on the backs of diner menus!
His collections PATRILINEAL (ink & ivy lit, 2025) and BURIED LOVE IN ARCHIVED WEBSITES (Ghost City Press, 2025) are available now! His work is published in The Hopkins Review, & Change, and elsewhere.
PATRILINEAL
(ink & ivy lit, 2025)
poetry chapbook
$12 USD in print: https://ko-fi.com/s/26a79926c1$3 USD as PDF file: https://ko-fi.com/s/b5aae937c6
BURIED LOVE IN ARCHIVED WEBSITES
(Ghost City Press, July 2025)
microchap
FREE as PDF file: https://ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-series/buried-love-in-archived-websites
Publications
2026
The Rumpus, January 2026
"Unlocked Alcohol Cabinet
"Insatiable Memory"The Keats-Shelley Review, January 2026, print
"The Mourning" (also available on the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association's website)
2025
& Change, September 2025, print
"Manhood, Becoming"
"Anthropology"2024 WBS Summer Studio Anthology, June 2025, print
"I AM AN AMERICAN POET" (republished online and in print by the Baltimore Beat, July 2025)
"Just Remember, Diaspora Creates A Good Essay"The Poly Journal, May 2025, print
"Every Jaded & Neurotic Boy Reads The Catcher in the Rye"
"Case Study of Physics"Cloudscent Journal, April 2025
"Fatherbird"Aster Lit, March 2025
"On Fatherhood"The Hopkins Review, February 2025
"Hinahanap-Hanap"
2024
JAKE, December 2024
"The Movie Saying Our Names"MEARI, December 2024
"Ars Teenage-Poetica"Queering the Quill, November 2024
"Unit Circles & The Things Between"
"Because We Could"Fleeting Daze Magazine, July 2024
"Fatherhood Apologia"The Poly Journal, April 2024
"Classical Guitarist"
"Flowerboy"Frighten the Horses, March 2024
"I WANT TO BE BURIED UNDER A CATHEDRAL DOWNTOWN"Writeadelic, January 2024
"Circular Reasoning"
2023
Apple a Day, November 2023
"Diagnosis”
"Bird Seed"Cutbow Quarterly, September 2023
"When Spring Returns, Homebound"CHARM, September 2023
"That Night in the Corner of the Small Closet"
"Looking Up"
"The Thousands of Islands"Backwards Trajectory, July 2023
"I've Been Asleep"HaluHalo Journal, July 2023
"Doctor Since Birth"
Forthcoming Publications
2026
The Poly Journal, May 2026, print
"Highway Travelers"
"Fatherghost"
"Excavations for Manhood"
Education
Johns Hopkins University Poetry class under Gabriella Fee, February 2026 to April 2026
Iowa Young Writers' Studio Poetry student under Regina Napolitano, June 2025
Johns Hopkins University Fiction class under Lysley Tenorio, February 2025 to April 2025
Adroit Journal mentee for Poetry under Jeddie Sophronius, June 2024 to July 2024
Sankofa Museum Creative Writing workshop under Unique Mical Robinson, March 2024 to May 2024
Johns Hopkins University Poetry class under Bruce Snider, February 2024 to April 2024
Awards
Winner of the Keats-Shelley Young Romantics Prize for "The Mourning," April 2025
Maryland Junior Achievement 18 Under 18 Honoree, January 2025
Four Silver Keys and Two Honorable Mentions, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, 2025
fMRI Writing Prize Youth Winner with The Hopkins Review for "Hinahanap-Hanap," September 2024
Experience
Editor-in-chief of Literary Undoings, May 2025 to present
Creator and leader of workshop ("Exploring Identity Through Other Perspectives: Transformative Poetry and its Different Forms") with Young Poets Workshops, July 2024
Editor-in-chief of Artists from Maryland, March 2024 to present
Performances
fMRI Flash Fiction Prize: A Reading and Celebration with The Hopkins Review, October 2025, "Hinahanap-Hanap"
Reading with ink & ivy lit, February 2025, selected pieces from PATRILINEAL (ink & ivy lit, 2025)
Annual reading at the Enoch Pratt Library with the Light Street Writers Exchange, June 2024, "Fatherhood Apologia"
Poetry and Social Engagement: A Poetry Reading with WBS/JHU, April 2024, "Fatherhood Apologia"
Made in Baltimore, Too with the Handel Choir, March 2024, "KAMATYAN"