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 ...

As Toby Barlow points out, epic poetry all but died out some time ago, and there hasn't been any hint that it's coming back. So for someone who works in advertising (he handles the Ford Motor Co.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!

It runs to more than 3,000 lines of verse and is the longest epic poem in Old English. Now, Beowulf - which documents the eponymous hero's battles with a monster and a dragon - will be made into a ...

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 ...

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Watch the above video (or click here) to hear the poem set to photos and video from the past season. Katherine DeGreef may now be in Washington, D.C., but Denver and the Broncos are still in her heart ...