For nearly two years TMV has been honored to run the incredibly creative — and often on target — political and economic poetic commentaries of Michael Silverstein aka Wall Street Poet.
But he has another side as well: he’s a former senior editor with Bloomberg Financial News, who now writes financial poetry and prose from his Philadelphia home-base.
We’ve run virtually every submission he has sent us — so it’s a lot easier now if we simply invited him to TMV to join our group of diverse voices. So we do. With gusto.
The only thing that will change is that his poetry and prose posts will contain his byline, as a regular member of TMV, and will no longer have our introductions. He’ll continue posting poetry commentary and some special prose commentary.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.