The team noticed that an area of the brain involved in pleasure called the nucleus accumbens behaved uniquely in response to poetry, showing that listeners can feel the most aesthetic pleasure while ...

The artist’s sprawling survey at the Guggenheim reveals an intellect unfolding and a life under way.

Freya Beer, music's new glam-goth poet - Freya Beer is the poet-turned-musician who is bringing a cult following into her ...

Humans spend most of their waking hours playing with what novelist Rudyard Kipling called “the most powerful drug used by mankind”—words. In the laboratories of our minds, we sort, slice ...

In an inventive, elliptical language, Peter Balakian's "New York Trilogy" explores one man’s journey from the late 1960s to ...

Burlingame poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra decided that if she was going to write a book on motherhood, it should go beyond skimming the surface. “I felt that I needed to make poems that were more rigorous ...

Corecore is a play on the name of the suffix itself and can best be described as a form of visual poetry that is meant to evoke certain emotions. This particular aesthetic may sound vague—and it ...