Question
A bell hooks book titled for this poem discusses how Black men need to “radicalize their consciousness to challenge patriarchy.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poem whose pool-playing characters “lurk late” and “sing sin” at The Golden Shovel.
ANSWER: “We Real Cool”
[10e] “We Real Cool” was written by this Black poet from Chicago, who included the poem in her collection The Bean Eaters.
ANSWER: Gwendolyn Brooks
[10h] This contemporary poet spelled out most of the text of “We Real Cool” in the line-ending words of her poem “An American Sunrise.” In another poem, this former Poet Laureate wrote about animals who were “bodies of sand” and “maps drawn of blood.”
ANSWER: Joy Harjo [or Joy Harjo-Sapulpa] (The poem is “She Had Some Horses.”)
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - American - Poetry> ~20200~ <Editor: Chandler West>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 20.86 | 94% | 83% | 31% |
Data
| Thomas Jefferson B | Barrington B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Canyon Crest | Maggie Walker C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rockford Auburn A | Carbondale | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chattahoochee A | Winston Churchill B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| William Fremd | Chattahoochee B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Choate Rosemary Hall | Moberly | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cincinnati Hills Christian | Dunbar | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Dallas County | Rockford Auburn B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Detroit Country Day | Winnebago | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Heights | Stevenson B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Hunter A | Washington | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Plymouth | Innovation Academy B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Irvington A | Norman | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker A | John Adams A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Hoover B | Johns Creek A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Creek B | Elkhorn North | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Belmont | Lake Highland | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Thomas Jefferson A | Lincoln-Way East | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Kinkaid | Maggie Walker B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Detroit Catholic Central B | Mexico | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Mercer County | Mira Loma | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Midtown | Norris | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Northmont A | Detroit Catholic Central C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Innovation Academy A | Northmont B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Parkway West | Saint Joseph | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Hunter B | Richard Montgomery | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Solon | Stevenson A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| St. Mark's | Belvidere | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Hinsdale Central | Troy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thomas Jefferson D | University Lab | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Walter Payton | Detroit Catholic Central A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson C | Waukee | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| West Point | Barrington A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| New Brighton | Winston Churchill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Woodland | John Adams B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |