Alexis Fajardo brings something new to the ancient tale of the Scandinavian hero Beowulf’s battle against the monster known as Grendel. “Beowulf,” an epic poem written roughly a thousand years ago in ...

The story of Beowulf is old. Really old. The epic poem, which has been translated and re-translated for centuries, is the Anglo-Saxon tale of a warrior who’s celebrated for his victorious bouts with ...

These two first books by mature, accomplished Texans reveal the diversity of poetry available to readers. While Jerald Winakur’s title echoes T.S. Eliot’s last line of “The Love Song of J. Alfred ...

The great hero Beowulf, wrestling with the monster Grendel, split the sinews of his foe and snapped his arm off at the shoulder. Going up against the monster's mother, he slammed her to the earth, ...