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The Illustrator at War: A Q&A With Steve Brodnernew

The cartoonist's trademark style is perhaps best described as psychedelic-progressive. If Howard Zinn ever enjoyed peyote visions, they'd likely find a home in Brodner's nightmarish political dreamscapes.
New York Press  |  Alexander Zaitchik  |  08-26-2004  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: the New Republic, New York, Esquire, New Jersey, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Republican National Convention, Freedom Fries: The Political Art of Steve Brodner, Gilded Age icon Thomas Nast, Hudson County, Sports Illustrated, Steve Brodner, The Nation, Washington Heights

Last Great Poet of Eastern Europe Dies at 93new

Czeslaw Milosz's poetry -- scattered over 20 books, a lifework for which he won the Nobel Prize -- adumbrated the moral and political strife of a Europe in ruin.
New York Press  |  Joshua Cohen  |  08-26-2004  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: World War II, France, exile, Czeslaw Milosz

The Poet Goes Straight: Cop's Daughter Slips and Rises Back Upnew

Once a strung-out heroin addict, poet Jackie Sheeler runs a Friday-night open mic for poetry readings at the Cornelius St. Cafe and started poetz.com to help neophyte writers.
New York Press  |  C.J. Sullivan  |  08-25-2004  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: addiction, AIDS, treatment, Jackie Sheeler (Editor), Off the Cuffs, Samaritan Village in Queens, Talk Engine, therapeutic community
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