Take Up the Tale: Bringing the Epic Tradition Into Our Time, with Malcolm Guite
Mon, Mar 23
|The National Press Club
The Rabbit Room, in partnership with The Trinity Forum, invites you to join us in Washington, D.C., at 6:30 pm on March 23rd for a special conversation with Malcolm Guite at the National Press Club.
Time & Location
Mar 23, 2026, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
The National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20045, USA
About the event
The Trinity Forum and Rabbit Room invite you to join us in Washington DC on March 23 for a special Evening Conversation with Malcolm Guite.
Together we will celebrate the publication that day of Galahad and the Grail, the first volume of his epic poem, Merlin’s Isle: An Arthuriad, published by Rabbit Room Press.
A poet, Anglican priest, and Trinity Forum Senior Fellow, Malcolm will describe his vision in creating this epic ballad, a poetic retelling of the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. With beautiful woodcut illustrations by Stephen Crotts, Malcolm’s book renews in our time the ancient tradition of epic storytelling.
Malcolm’s ambitious aim is to “awaken again in the modern world that openness to beauty and mystery which prepares the heart for the coming of Christ.” As he has said:
“I’m trying to lift the veil to see; not so much to…