Aldrin Badiola (he/him) is a poet, pianist, photographer, and major enthusiast of 90's Filipino rock and disco music.

His work is published or forthcoming in Fleeting Daze Magazine, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere.

Publications

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

Aster Lit, (forthcoming)
"On Fatherhood"The Hopkins Review, (forthcoming)
"Hinahanap-Hanap"2024 WBS Summer Studio Anthology, (forthcoming)
"I AM AN AMERICAN POET"
"Just Remember, Diaspora Creates A Good Essay"Cloudscent Journal, (forthcoming)
"Fatherbird"Acedia Journal, (forthcoming)
“CITY WHERE BOYS CAN SING”
“Self-Portrait as Man, or Death"

Education

  • Adroit Journal mentee for Poetry under Jeddie Sophronius, June 2024 to July 2024

  • Sankofa Museum workshop under Unique Mical Robinson, March 2024 to May 2024

  • Writers in Baltimore Schools student of "Poetry and Social Engagement" class at Johns Hopkins University under Bruce Snider, January 2024 to April 2024

Awards

Honors & Experience

Performances

  • Annual reading at the Enoch Pratt Library with the Light Street Writers Exchange, June 2024

  • Poetry and Social Engagement: A Poetry Reading with WBS/JHU, April 2024

  • Made in Baltimore, Too with the Handel Choir, March 2024