Poetry, Voice, Brain, and Body.

This article addresses the question of how poetry and deep body-voice work share an ability to integrate body, mind, and feelings. Identifying five core poetry techniques, it discusses research that explains the way that poetry can affect brain and bodily sensations, as well as emotion and intellect. The relevance of the Triune Brain model to both poetry and voice is described, and a model of brain-voicing links is proposed, with a hypothesis as to why poetry, and certain kinds of voicing—metaphorically and literally—"go deep." The practice of "free-voicing" is introduced in this context, and its relevance to voice work, therapy, and well-being are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]