Neuroscientists often quote Emily Dickinson's poem that begins, "The brain is wider than the sky," in support of their view that the mind is nothing but the brain. But they interpret the poem too ...

Yet then, like a person being hanged, she feels the “Plank in Reason” break beneath her. As the poem ends, on an inconclusive em-dash, its thoughts cut short, its speaker drops utterly out of “knowing ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

And the experience led Webster to write Chemo Brain, a poem about how the drug scrambled her thinking. Poetry, she says, has a way of trimming "away every extraneous word until the essence shines ...

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Jane Yolen, who divides her time between Hatfield, Massachusetts; Mystic, Connecticut; and Scotland. Jane began writing in 2nd grade and ...

In her May 25 Thursday Opinion essay, Josie Glausiusz explained how poems offered her an anchor as she lost her 12-year-old son to brain cancer.“With just a word or a phrase, a poem can reach ...

Well, in the distinct brain regions identified as being activated during writing, music-making, and creating art, those activated areas of the brain were connected by this creativity circuit to ...

In Szymaszek’s poem, thinking in the city — eked out in scraps of survival-inflected time — reflects the city’s qualities: those of motion and vigilance, even a kind of gentle arrogance.

How the brain finds meaning in metaphor Date: April 2, 2019 Source: University of Arizona Summary: Whether you bend a rod or bend the rules, the brain processes the word 'bend' similarly, with the ...

Adam Wolfond’s poem is mostly written in declaratives, giving it a sense of confidence. As a nonspeaking autistic artist, prose writer and poet, Wolfond uses language as an invitation to witness ...