Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
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: A History of Backroads Misplaced: Selected Poems 2010-2020 (Kung Fu Treachery), American Aorta (OAC Books) and a forthcoming collection Waiting on Hummingbirds with Kansas poet James Benger (Their fourth together) His first book of photography, Lazarus (OAC Books), was released last year and the ekphrastic collaboration Hope is a Prison with poet Rebecca Schumejda (Kung Fu Treachery) just hit bookstores. More ekphrastic collaborations are in the works featuring his photography in 2025. 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.
By James Benger , Jason Baldinger
Published: 2024
The latest dual poetry joint by Baldinger and Benger, is a bold and sympathetic meditation on the wrack, rumble, and backroad precariousness found in the protoplasm of American experience. A read I heartily recommend.
~ John Burroughs, 2022-2023 U.S. Beat Poet Laureate
Lyric poems and ballads, paying homage to the gritty, black-and-white life of stuckness that plays out in single wides, 3rd shifts and temp work. A tender witness of lower-case Saturdays and the slow passing of time till someone notices “the drop ceiling they installed in the sky…”
~ Karen Schubert, author of The Compost Reader
Imagine yourself in the backseat of a beater, a sodium-lit highway, an overnight road trip with two friends whose stories are fluent, profound, humane, deft and tender. At the end, I returned to the first page and began again.
~ Jennifer Browne, American Crow