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 ...

On Thursday night, Bennett Lovett-Graff, George Kulp, and J. Kevin Smith smuggled two epic poems into the Institute Library, disguised as 20th-century American short stories. The two stories, Harlan ...

Le donne, i cavallier, l’arme, gli amori, / le cortesie, l’audaci imprese io canto. Of wives and ladies, knights and arms, I sing, / of courtesies and many a daring feat. Ariosto began work on his ...

THE rich tradition of the heroic epic and its storytellers has been preserved with extraordinary completeness by the Kirghiz people. One celebrated epic singer was the aged Sagymbai Orzbakov; it was ...