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.

Books & the Arts / From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Orlando Reade In September 2023, the ...

Driven to save his culture, an ethnic Assyrian living in Britain is recording ancient tales of adventure sung by modern-day bards. The songs echo stories from ancient Greece to the Bible.

Good as gold. The novel is dead. But the epic poem -- book-length fiction, and its audio and video adaptations -- is dominating our lives in a way unseen since Homer. Intuition tells us that the ...

PJ Harvey's new album, I Inside The Old Year Dying, builds off of a narrative poem she wrote about a year in the life of a 9-year-old girl in a fictional town in western England.

Stories of true heroism remind us of the bravery we are all capable of. A modern example of one such poem is the 1999 epic All Star, written by the bard Smashmouth.

SF Studios has boarded 'Kalevala: The Story of Kullervo,' a period drama based on Finland’s national epic 'Kalevala” to be directed Antti J. Jokinen.

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war.

Musk is not alone in sensing this: Two other prominent right-wing thinkers have used epic poetry in their attacks on liberal democracy. What dark future does it help them to articulate?