We also see another example of a poetic trend found in both oral and written literature – that of the ‘drinking song’ – which in this case is also a praise song in oral poetry just like ...

In Yoruba, praise poems are called oriki; in isiZulu ... and middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya are explicit examples of the challenges that particularly black women are ...

Here is a literal translation of the inspired poem called "Caedmon's Hymn." The odd spacing is from the original. Now must we to praise of heaven's kingdom the Keeper Of the Lord the power and his ...

The fellowship allows her to pay each poet for their work and covers travel to readings of praise poems around the state (check them out this fall in Austin, Houston, Dallas, El Paso, San Antonio ...

Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth brings forth its bud, As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before ...

These moving words are in the latest offering by South Africa’s poet laureate, Mongane Wally Serote, in his praise poem to Oliver Reginald Tambo. As young men and women growing up under apartheid, ...

President Biden welcomed the youngest inaugural poet in history, 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, who earned widespread praise for her performance ... Miranda — for the poem she read, “The Hill ...