Please consider pre-ordering my upcoming book from Waters Edge Press, Communiqué: Poems from the Headlines.

I accept PayPal but don’t have a PayPal business account, just a PayPal “wallet”. If you’d like to deal with me directly rather than Jeff Bezos, you can send the cost of the book + $4 for package and post. Go to PayPal, click on “Send Money” tab and enter this email: wersted@juno.com. In the message window, put your mailing address and the book you want.

Prices:
Communiqué: Poems from the Headlines —-Please order from Waters Edge Press
The following can be ordered directly from me:
Who Are we Then? $10
Masquerades and Misdemeanors (I’m out, check with Pebblebrook press or go to Amazon.)
Tar Pit $15
Benediction & Baseball $10


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With apologies to William Carlos Williams, Ed Werstein proves in his newest book that you can get poetry from the news.
— Water's Edge Press

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...this is a fun book to read-whimsical, nostalgic and rich in human understanding.
— Alice D'Alessio, author of "Walking the Tracks"

To purchase this book email me at wersted@gmail.com to et my address.
$10 plus shipping.


These words are like “signals from the stars,” lovely and surprising and filled with the stuff of good poetry: strong images, deft use of language and unerring need to have fun.
— Karla Huston, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2017-2018, author of GRIEF BONE

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Nowhere is poetry more vibrantly alive than right here in Wisconsin—the domain that we, the Hartford Avenue Poets, call home.
— Marilyn L. Taylor, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2008-2009

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Ed’s passionate and thoughtful words, strong images, and insightful questions step down off the soapbox and march poetically straight into our hearts, with much music and gravity.
— Bruce Dethlefsen, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2011-2012