Every great institution
deserves its own poet laureate.
Michael Silverstein, the Wall Street Poet,
serves that function for Wall Street.
His first book of satirical financial verse, Songs Of Wall Street (Running Press, 2001), won him a host of new fans, a profile in USAToday, and a regular spot on Minnesota Public Radio’s ‘Morning Market Report.’ His newest book, Street Verse, 80 New Songs Of Wall Street (Silverwood Books, May 2003) promises to win him an even wider audience.
Street Verse, lovingly illustrated by Kay Wood, is a 140-page paperback ($14.95) that offers an altogether unique and bitingly funny perspective on subjects ranging from market manipulators to labor & management issues to tax angst. Silverstein’s satire—much of it done in the style of famous poets such as Shakespeare, Tennyson and Shelley, and famous satirists such as Gilbert & Sullivan and Ogden Nash—captures the poetic humor (and pathos) of stocks, bonds, options, gold and real estate.
As a former senior editor with Bloomberg News in Princeton, New Jersey, Silverstein’s verse is market savvy as well as funny. He keeps it fresh and current by adding new poems weekly to his wallstreetpoet.com web site.
To order copies of Street Verse directly from the author, send a check or M.O. for $14.95 (plus $2.50 shipping and handling) made payable to: Michael Silverstein, and mail to: P.O. Box 1167, Glenside, PA 19038
