Benjamin Aleshire's guest appearances

Benjamin Aleshire

WRBH Reading Radio Original Programming Podcasts

No Good Poetry

Rattlecast

Kevin Clark

Brendan Constantine

Chris Anderson

Dana Gioia

Naomi Shihab Nye

Amy Miller

Todd Davis

Chris Sullivan

David Berman

Grace Thomas

Megan Burns

Campbell McGrath

Ellen Bass

John Ashbery

Mike White

OwlTail

Our first Rattlecast livestream features Benjamin Aleshire, a poet-for-hire who travels the world writing poems for strangers on a manual typewriter. He'll read poems from his new book, Currency, and talk to Rattle editor Timothy Green about his life as a traveling bard, Instagram poetry, and more.  After the featured reading, we turn the stream over to an open mic via Skype. Benjamin Aleshire is an artist based in New Orleans. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Iowa Review, Boston Review, and many others, and his poem "Good Manners" appears in Rattle #64. His collection of typewriter poems, 'Currency', is available at www.poetforhire.org Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the practice of poetry, and is not affiliated with any other organization.

Our first Rattlecast livestream features Benjamin Aleshire, a poet-for-hire who travels the world writing poems for strangers on a manual typewriter. He'll read poems from his new book, Currency, and talk to Rattle editor Timothy Green about his life as a traveling bard, Instagram poetry, and more. After the featured reading, we turn the stream over to an open mic via Skype. Benjamin Aleshire is an artist based in New Orleans. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Iowa Review, Boston Review, and many others, and his poem "Good Manners" appears in Rattle #64. His collection of typewriter poems, 'Currency', is available at <a href="http://www.poetforhire.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.poetforhire.org</a> Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the practice of poetry, and is not affiliated with any other organization.

ep. 1 - Benjamin Aleshire

Poet Ben Aleshire joins us this week to talk about his recent travels, selling poetry on the street, and troubadours in this extra-long episode. We hit on all kinds of odd subjects, George Whitman's shenanigans at Shakespeare and Company, whether Johnny Depp might have stolen a poetry broadside from City Lights, the fecundity of letterpress printing in Germany, fake news, Ezra Pound's Fascism and Antisemitism, improvisation vs. revision in poetry, John Ashbery, how poetry is like free jazz, and why you should never submit poetry to the New Yorker.

Poet Ben Aleshire joins us this week to talk about his recent travels, selling poetry on the street, and troubadours in this extra-long episode. We hit on all kinds of odd subjects, George Whitman's shenanigans at Shakespeare and Company, whether Johnny Depp might have stolen a poetry broadside from City Lights, the fecundity of letterpress printing in Germany, fake news, Ezra Pound's Fascism and Antisemitism, improvisation vs. revision in poetry, John Ashbery, how poetry is like free jazz, and why you should never submit poetry to the New Yorker.

Episode 48: Poetry Travel and Troubadours with Benjamin Aleshire