Tracen Wassily wasn’t initially sold on the hefty “Epic of Gilgamesh,” a poem that dates back roughly 4,000 years. “At first, I didn’t like it,” said Wassily, who is 16 years old. “But what I wrote ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine borderlands.

Sean O’Callaghan, Jared McNeill, Ery Nzaramba, Carole Karemera, and Toshi Tsuchitori in ‘Battlefield’ One of the production’s most effective elements is the music by Toshi Tsuchitori, who sits on ...

Gather round, readers, and I shall tell you a tale of childhood, chaos and candy. Of a book that revisits the wonder and whimsy of youth. A tale of ferocious 5-year olds, grumpy geezers and terrible ...

Now that the weather is warming, it’s time for the epic-length poems to be found, ‘Cause it’s National Poetry Month, just as sure as there’s piled-up snow on the ground. It’s nice out! It’s raining!

"Beowulf," the Old English epic poem has been in the news a surprising amount in recent years, in large part because of the success of Seamus Heaney's award-winning modern translation, published in ...

Since 2015, following the Charleston Church Massacre, protest groups and municipalities across the United States have removed over 150 Confederate memorials. If toppling a statue is an exclamation ...

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s epic poem “Algarabía” follows the journey of its protagonist, Cenex, on the Isle of Algarabía, a fantastical projection of Puerto Rico, referred to in the poem as ELA ...

PJ Harvey's new album, I Inside the Old Year Dying (out July 7), further illuminates the world Orlam brought to the page. Originally Harvey planned a theater piece to expand upon the work, but these ...

Half a century ago Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel recorded a song based upon the poem “Richard Cory.” If Simon had not written the song, maybe no one under the age of seventy would be aware of the ...