BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - The work of America's best black poets will find a new home on Sunday, set to organ music.

On Aug. 25 at 2:30 p.m., East Lake United Methodist Church will partner with singers from St. Paul United Methodist and other churches to present "Courage My Soul and Let Us Journey On," a program in honor and celebration of African-American poets and hymnody.

The program is in observance of Birmingham's Fifty Years Forward commemoration, said East Lake Methodist organist Barry Norris.

Guest artist Roderick George of the University of Montevallo will perform four new musical settings of works by African-American poets, George Moses Horton, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, composed by East Lake organist emerita Mary K. "Mimi" Jackson.

James Smith of Sixth Avenue Baptist Church will be the organist.

Spirituals and hymns, including hymns by Charles Albert Tindley and harmonies by William Farley Smith will be sung by the mass choir.