It's not often (if ever) a recipient of the Medal of Honor is also a published poet. But retired Green Beret John Duffy turned his trial-by-fire into an epic poem of the Vietnam War. It was a brutal ...

We Texans–even the most jaded and liberal of us–are awful proud of our big, wide-open state. We all learned Texas history as schoolchildren, and even my Latino friends had to choke down tales of Davy ...

Somewhere in the production process for Argo, a multimedia take on the epic Greek poem The Argonautika by NC State’s University Theatre, visual artist Darby Madewell realized just how meta the ...

This work discusses a modern Assyrian epic, Qaṭīne Gabbara, in both its oral and written traditions, and examines its importance in marking continuity in culture, traditions and language. Building on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Political theory and strategy that works for American humans The novel is dead. But the epic poem -- book-length fiction, and its ...

When Prof. Robyn Schiff sat at the information desk at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she felt as if, “I was living my life at the center of the world.” Nearly 30 years later, Schiff ...

Discovered by Turkish researchers, a centuries-old epic poem written to honor Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, commonly knowns as Mehmed the Conqueror, has been published in Turkish and English for the first ...

Alan Jacobs clarifies centuries of debate over John Milton’s epic retelling of the Fall. Christian life is rooted in a story with a specific plot. It begins with God’s creation of the world, builds ...

Following his Oscar-winning success with Oppenheimer, famed director Christopher Nolan will delve into Greek poetry. Yes, he’s messed with our memories (Memento), played vigilante (The Dark Knight ...

The Sept. 15 episode of AMC's Breaking Bad broke hearts with its badness. In this instance, "badness" translates to television amazingness. I recently wrote about how the show's writers use poetry to ...