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 ...

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 ...

“Politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose”. This is how Mario Cuomo, the former Governor of New York, described the varying strengths politicians need when seeking office, and while ...

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 ...

There is no novel as deep and dark as a Russian novel, no poetry more searingly confessional than Russian poetry, no drama more obsessed with plumbing the depths of the soul than Russian drama.

As Penelope Fitzgerald observed, "No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he [or she]thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a ...

The critic William Hazlitt (1778–1830), known best in his lifetime for his writing on Shakespeare, was a jack of all trades and a master of none too few, trying his deft hand at painting, philosophy, ...