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.

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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.