Axelsson resists the sprawling sonority so often associated with epic poetry in favor of a tightly focused examination of the way historical tragedy reverberates in unexceptional lives ...

Another favorite project is her Poet Laureate project — New Mexico Epic Poem Project ... From there, I’m often writing toward something I want to hold onto or release.

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In this epic poem – at almost 18,000 lines, it is even longer than Paradise Lost and by far the longest published American poem of all time – he tells the story of Clarel, a spiritually ...

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Here, the flicker—like Notley’s sense that the writing of a poem is “basic and ongoing creation”—alludes to how elemental forces of life and spirit move through the individual (poet ...

Operating on the cusp of the genre, they’ve provided plenty of evidence over the years that their roots lay in prog ...