Benjamin Aleshire

Benjamin Aleshire lives in New Orleans. His work has appeared in the The Times of London, Iowa Review, Boston Review, and on television in the US, China, and Spain. Andrei Codrescu selected his manuscript Poet For Hire as runner-up for the 2019 Faulkner-Wisdom prize in narrative nonfiction. As a poet-for-hire, his clients include Princeton University, House of Yes orgy-goers, Sir Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare & Co, the Bellagio, Bernie Sanders, and Jimmy Page. He serves as assistant poetry editor for Green Mountains Review.

Big Data vs. Big Dada: Writing Poetry on Demand at a New Orleans Tech Convention

Benjamin Aleshire on (Briefly) Going Corporate as a Poet-For-Hire

November 7, 2019 By Benjamin Aleshire

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Benjamin Aleshire

Big Data vs. Big Dada: Writing Poetry on Demand at a New Orleans Tech Convention

Benjamin Aleshire on (Briefly) Going Corporate as a Poet-For-Hire

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