Archives 2012: Poets Featured in Poetry Corner
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I COME FROM THE
NIGGER YARD
(Excerpt)
BY
MARTIN CARTER
GUYANESE POET
(1927-1997)

VERSE 1

I come from the
nigger yard of
yesterday /
leaping from the
oppressors' hate /
and the scorn of
myself; / from the
agony of the dark
hut in the shadow /
and the hurt of
things; / from the
long days of
cruelty and the
long nights of pain
/ down to the wide
streets of
to-morrow, of the
next day / leaping
I come, who
cannot see will
hear.

[Written in the
1950s.]


From POEMS BY
MARTIN CARTER,
Edited by Stewart
Brown & Ian
McDonald, 2006
APR 2012: HILDA HILST - poet, playwright, and novelist born in Jaú, São Paulo,
    in Southeast Brazil.
    Featured Poem (excerpt) "Poems for the Men of Our Time" (Poemas aos
    Homens do Nosso Tempo), translated by Rosaliene Bacchus in
    collaboration with Angela Consolo Mankiewicz.

MAR 2012: APRYL SKIES - poet, photographer, and artist, born and living in Los
    Angeles, California.
    Featured Poem "What Will Become" from A Song Beneath Silence, Edgar &
    Lenore's Publishing House, California, USA, 2010.

FEB 2012: SYBLE G. DOUGLAS - Guyanese-Canadian artist and poet, and former
    teacher and journalist; living in Toronto.
    Featured Poem "Random Harvest" from Transition: Poems Old & New,
    Design & Layout by Barbara Telfer, 2008.

JAN 2012: FERREIRA GULLAR - poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and TV
    writer, born in São Luis, Maranhão, in Northeast Brazil.
    Featured Poem "There are Many Traps in the World" (No mundo há muitas
    armadilhas), translated by Brazilian poet, Renato Rezende.