Alexander's mother, his parents, his teacher Aristotle told him the story of Homer's Iliad.

It is in these little stories, these individual stories, that I see a radical epic being written by women around the world.

Just let me finish this line.

That is our poetry. That is our beautiful story.

That is my epic.

THE SEVENTEENTH SONG ULYSSEUS ARRIVES IN THE TOWN

Now you have a duty invent a new story. Invent a new poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson described language as fossil poetry.

The big image is our story, our poetry, our romanticism.

The Bowery Poetry Club became my classroom and my home, and the poets who performed encouraged me to share my stories as well.

It is a theme for an epic, Divinity.

In the words of that immortal bard, Samuel J. Snodgrass

Fairytale centres...

And that's the story that we tell in big history.

And the observations that he made on that epic journey were to be eventually distilled into his wonderful book, On the Origin of Species, published 150 years ago.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don't understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I've been.

So the little poem is called The Dead.

But before it was fossil poetry language was fossil metaphor.

A simple story for simple people.

Other ones are historical.

In the Middle Ages, troubadours would travel across the land singing their tales and sharing their verses Lesbor travels through the Balkans like this, singing, connecting people divided by religion, nationality and language.

And it was here, listening to these poets share their stories, that I learned that spoken word poetry didn't have to be indignant, it could be fun or painful or serious or silly.

This film is a poetic drama about the great love of Ivan and Marichka.

Well, Charlie, that story is really Steve McCleary's.

But it's interesting to me. I love to write historical verse.

They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends.

All the stories began to bleed together.

The fictional Romanian creators were not wrong We even do it with our own recent history, and theirs.

A pretty idyllic place on the Mekong Delta.

I was really amazed by all the stories that started flooding in.

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It's very, very epic and a very beautiful concert.

What they discovered was that in our Netflix queues there's this epic struggle going on between our future aspirational selves and our more impulsive present selves.

Charlie Chaplin innovated motion pictures and told stories through music, silence, humor and poetry.

But I don't really tell stories in the usual way, in the sense that I don't usually tell my own stories.

I knew those hands were no accident.

I was interested in the idea of why and how I could create a new story, a new narrative in art history and a new narrative in the world.

Thank you. And the last poem is called The Dead.

They sing for love, they dance for love, they compose poems and stories about love.

This particular story by Osama Tezuka is his epic life of the Buddha, and it's eight volumes in all. But the best thing is when it's on your shelf, you get a shelf life of the Buddha, moving from one age to the next.

Thanks to the Road, outstanding epics and legends became the property of all mankind.

The whole history of telephony is a story of dealing with that uncertainty.

We can make the 5 00 edition exclusive. Steve can do the lead story.

Maybe it's because Dad used to read to us at night.

And I remembered a line from the Mahabharata, the great Indian epic What is the most wondrous thing in the world, Yudhisthira?