Ọ̀rọ̀ Lẹyẹ ń Gbọ́! A Deserving Tribute to Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀Mosọbalájé Ajíbádé Àkàndé Fálétí (Ọdẹ Àdàbà) by Félix Ayoh’Omidire

“…On the whole, Adébáyọ Fálétí was recognized as a singular man of culture ̀ whose imprints in the sand of the Yorùbá cultural terrain have forever become indelible, thanks to his intense dedication to the promotion of the Yorùbá “ọmọlúàbí” cultural ethos and the use of his God-given talents to promote Yorùbá history, poetry, orature, cinema and the Arts in general. …”
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Variable factors in literary critical evaluation (on the examples of selected literary critical polemics from the 1930s and 1940s) by Martin Makara

“…These include Hmly na úsvite (Mists at dawn, 1930) by Milo Urban, Kus cukru (A lump of sugar, 1934) by Peter Jilemnický, Cesta zarúbaná (Blocked road, 1934) by Fraňo Kráľ, Kamarát Jašek (My friend Jašek, 1937) by Dobroslav Chrobák, and the poetry of Slovak Nadrealism.…”
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Jogos, sociabilidade e conflito no Brasil by Édison Gastaldo, Everardo Rocha, Adriana Braga

“…According to the classic formulation of Johan Huizinga’s Homo ludens (from 1938), culture itself would derive its fundamental features from the elementary structure of play. To him, poetry, law, war, music, religion and everything we regard as serious, sacred and respectful derive at some level from ancient sacred games, and still keep their elementary features. …”
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“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Poetic Path into the Depths of Contemplation by Marcin Godawa

“…The present paper concerns the question of how Christian contemplation, in the sense of a simple loving gaze on God and His works, could be prepared and supported by poetry by using the properties of poetic speech in the field of semantics, syntax as well as sound effects. …”
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Au rendez-vous allemand (1) by Agnès Bouvier

“…Herder’s History of Hebrew Poetry, published in 1783, was translated in 1845.  …”
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Midiologia, linguagem e poesia by Luciano Barbosa Justino, Simone Dália de Gusmão Aranha

“…However we believe this necessity – although altogether critical – must be con- nected with a reflexion over the technical processes that have directly influenced literature throughout the centuries it has existed. We also think that poetry, main- ly because it has dialogued on a non-stop basis with such processes, has much to tell us about what we hold, following the track of Régis Debray (1995) and Lévy (1997), to be the three ages of intelligence, centered on voice, writing and on digi- tal video.…”
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CORNEL ŢĂRANU – VALENTIN STREINU: MUSICAL-POETIC CONNECTIONS by Ciprian Gabriel POP

“… The present article offers a brief overview of the ways poetry is mixed with music in the work Saturnalia (Romanian: Saturnalii) by Cornel Tăranu. …”
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Du rat-toto fils du porc-épic, de la panthère et de la nandinie by Claudie Haxaire

“…The origin of the most beautiful and most complete expression of the Guro art, that of the Zamble mask and its masquerade, combine poetry of tales and precision of encyclopedic knowledge.Taking at its words the animal nicknames given by the Guro of Zuenoula to the masks of the Zamble family, namely Zamble himself, his wild brother Zàùlì and their wife Gù, we show how the habits attributed respectively to the panther, to the Gambian pouched rat and to the African palm civet, encyclopedic knowledge on which the tales are based, illuminates the warlike origin of these cults. …”
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Yoruba Festival and the Dramatist: Satire as Spine in Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests by Olusegun i Olu-Osayomi

“…The paper explains further that the festival's motif and cultural celebration built into the structure of the selected play and properly harnessed raw material for his poetry. The methodology is analytical and complemented by hermeneutics theory. …”
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“Punk’s Not Dead, It Lives on The Football Terraces”: Tracing The Legacy of Punk in Subcultural Milieu of The Football Firms by Hüseyin Serbes

“…The discovery of Punk, which offers a subcultural capital against commodification, alienation and commercialized football, may regenerate the praxis of pleasure, poetry, art, imagination, love and revolution on the football terraces.…”
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Serialization of Ọbasa’s Poems in The Yorùbá News by Tolulope Ibikunle

“…Ọbasa, the publisher ́ of The Yorùbá News, also published many works of poetry. Ọbasa started the publication of excerpts of his poems in The Yoruba News under the column “Àwọn Akéwì.” …”
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Building Bridges through Writing: An Interview with Rohini Bannerjee by Sara Casco-Solís

“…Her short stories and poetry—written in both French and English—explore themes of belonging, identity and body image. …”
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Gendered Species of Yoruba Plants: An Ecofeminist Perspective by Adeola Adijat Faleye

“…From published works of Yorùbá literature and other oral data, such as in poetry texts, findings show extant research on many herbs [plants]. …”
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The Concepts and Contextualization of Incantations in Nigerian Popular Music: Juju Music as Paradigm by Kayode Olusola

“…This paper concludes that, apart from musicians’ creativity, the culture change witnessed in terms of the use of incantation in juju music in the 1970s, was because of the borrowed creativity influenced by different Yoruba traditional spiritual poetry. This paper, therefore, highlights and documents the phenomenon of incantation as a Yoruba linguistic verbal art in popular music in Nigeria. …”
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Slam Resistência: poesia, cidadania e insurgência by Daniela Silva de Freitas

“…Dada la novedad que esta nueva forma de poesía constituye, empezaremos por presentar los orígenes y los recorridos de la slam poetry hasta su llegada a São Paulo y discutiremos la forma como el slam transforma la relación entre público, poeta y poesía, redefiniendo sus términos. …”
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The Kosovo Covenant by Kinđić Zoran B.

“…The Kosovo Covenant was conceptualized by Danilo III, shortly after the Battle of Kosovo, whereas folk poetry spread through the Serbian people with that ideology. …”
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Ijegbe and Luse Performances, and the Dialects of Collectivized Tragedy and Ideology among the Ilaje by Stephen Ola Ajimisan

“… This essay explores the genres of Biripo, the Ilaje oral performance or folk-poetry, Ijegbe and Luse vis-à-vis the notion of collectivised tragedy and ideology among the people. …”
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تقنيات السير الذاتي في " تقرير إلى غريكو "لـ نيكوس كازانتزاكيس أنموذجا by Feghrour Hala

“…The narrative integrates elements of philosophy, poetry, spirituality, and history, reflecting Kazantzakis' profound contemplation of life and art. …”
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تقنيات السير الذاتي في " تقرير إلى غريكو "لـ نيكوس كازانتزاكيس أنموذجا by Feghrour Hala

“…The narrative integrates elements of philosophy, poetry, spirituality, and history, reflecting Kazantzakis' profound contemplation of life and art. …”
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Poetic Utterances and Socio-Political Commitment in Ọbasa’s Poems by Lere Adeyemi

“…It is a corpus study or content analysis of the poetry books. Poems that are relevant to socio-political issues in the three books (Ìwé Kinni Awon Akéwì, ̣ Ìwé Kejì Awon Akéwì and ̣ Ìwé Kéta ̣ Àwoṇ Akéwì) were analyzed within the theory of Nativism. …”
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