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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google has released its latest Doodle commemorating the work of Adam Mickiewicz, a Polish poet and political activist. Mickiewicz, whose work includes ballads and romances displaying a deep connection ...

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 ...

"Here's what not to do when a bird shits on you." Samuel Taylor Coleridge almost certainly never imagined such an introduction to his epic poem The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, yet this is how Bruce ...

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In my life, “there’s an acute sense of time’s passage,” David Milch once remarked. “Things are important. You don’t want to be inconsequential in your perspective on things. I feel that with an ...

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