For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

Epic poems are more complex than they are often given credit for. They tell us of the failings of great men and the downfalls caused by pride—moments that aren’t “epic” in the modern ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered opening remarks Wednesday at Little Rock's Statehouse Convention Center as Indian ...

I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing ...

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!

“Epic” is a genre of long, narrative poem that summons up, for many English-language readers, the Iliad and the Odyssey, foundational texts of the Western canon.