[Julie Steiner]

I just stumbled across this, while looking for something else:

PROSE FROM POETRY MAGAZINE (October 2010 issue)
This Is Your Brain On Poetry
Can neuroscience help us understand what makes a good poem?
BY ANGE MLINKO AND IAIN MCGILCHRIST

[I had originally posted this to the David Mason on poetic identity thread now on General Talk, because I had mentioned Iain McGilchrist in that context, but this article seemed off-topic there.]

I should probably repeat the caveat that I posted earlier in that thread, about the whole left brain/right brain field of study having degenerated into rather silly and unsubstantiated claims in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, leading many people to reject anything related to it as dubious pop science. McGilchrist, a neuroscientist and also a teacher of poetry at Oxford, has tried to salvage some things of real value in that discredited area.