Currency, by Benjamin Aleshire

Currency

by Benjamin Aleshire

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A collection of poems written for strangers, composed spontaneously on a manual typewriter in the streets of New Orleans, Paris, Havana, Rome, San Francisco, Madrid, London, and Burlington.

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1.	Fake Noose 01:35	lyrics	buy track
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2.	Chariot 00:57	lyrics	buy track
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4.	Washington Sq. Park 00:37	lyrics	buy track
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released January 1, 2018

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Benjamin Aleshire New Orleans, Louisiana

BENJAMIN ALESHIRE is an artist based in New Orleans, who travels the world as a poet-for-hire, writing poems for strangers on a manual typewriter. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Iowa Review, Boston Review, and many others. His collection of typewriter poems, 'Currency', is available at www.poetforhire.org. ... more