IT IS usually dangerous for anyone whose gift is one art to attempt to follow another. The pitfalls of following poetry when your gift is prose are obvious enough to ...

Yolanda Perdomo is an award-winning journalist and a digital producer for CBS Chicago. Previously, Yolanda was a producer and reporter for WBEZ, WCPN, and WXXI. She namechecks famed poets, including ...

When Brad Leithauser, now a professor in the Writing Seminars, came across an article about Iceland in 1984—years before the country's emergence in the late 1990s as a hip tourist spot—he knew he had ...

Mario Cuomo once famously remarked, "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." This metaphor, highlighting the shift from rhetoric to reality, applies to various contexts. A good example is the ...

Scientists use functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to visualize which parts of the brain are activated to process various activities. But until now, no one had ever looked specifically at ...

They say a politician campaigns in poetry and governs in prose. They might also say, less poetically, that a politician campaigns in his dreams and governs after waking. Voters tend to value eloquence ...

To publish one acclaimed book in any given year is a rare accomplishment. But to publish two — one poetry, one prose — within a few months of each other is utterly remarkable. Yet that was the year ...