Question

An author with this first name tells the addressee, “I love you for your brownness / and the rounded darkness of your breast” in the poem “To a Dark Girl.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this first name of a Harlem Renaissance poet with the surname Bennett. Another poet with this first name created a group of pool players who exclaim, “We / Jazz June. We / Die soon.” in “We Real Cool.”
ANSWER: Gwendolyn [accept Gwendolyn Bennett; accept Gwendolyn Brooks or Gwen Brooks]
[10h] The narrator wishes, “I want to see the slim palm trees / pulling at the clouds / with little pointed fingers” in a Gwendolyn Bennett poem with this title. Another poem with this title repeats the question, “what is Africa to me?”
ANSWER: Heritage” (The other poem is by Countee Cullen.)
[10m] Bennett contributed the story “Wedding Day” to a one-issue magazine titled for this thing. This thing titles a book that recounts a talk with Elijah Muhammad in the section “Letter from a Region in my Mind.”
ANSWER: fire [accept Fire!! or The Fire Next Time]
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Florida2025-02-01Y36.6733%33%0%
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y621.67100%83%33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y58.0060%20%0%
Midwest2025-02-01Y611.67100%17%0%
North2025-02-01Y310.00100%0%0%
Northeast2025-02-01Y512.0060%40%20%
Overflow2025-02-01Y415.0075%50%25%
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y210.00100%0%0%
South Central2025-02-01Y215.00100%0%50%
Southeast2025-02-01Y410.00100%0%0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y813.7575%38%25%
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y33.3333%0%0%

Data

Florida AValencia A1001020
Florida State AUCF B0000
Florida BUCF C0000
Michigan ACarnegie Mellon A1001020
Michigan CCarnegie Mellon B1001020
Case Western BKenyon1001020
Michigan DOhio State B10101030
Ohio State ACase Western A1001020
Michigan BMichigan State1010020
Liberty ADuke0000
Liberty BSouth Carolina0000
William & MaryUNC B100010
Virginia Tech AUNC C100010
Virginia AUNC D1001020
Chicago BIllinois B100010
Illinois AChicago C1001020
Chicago DChicago A100010
Illinois CMissouri100010
WashU AIndiana B100010
WashU BIndiana A100010
Iowa StateCarleton100010
Minnesota BWinona State100010
Wisconsin AWisconsin B100010
Brandeis ABU1001020
Harvard BDartmouth A100010
Tufts ABrown A0000
MIT AUMass Boston1001020
Northwestern BGeorgetown A100010
Notre Dame CNotre Dame B0000
PurdueIowa10101030
Stanford BNorthwestern A1001020
UW BAlberta100010
UBCUW A100010
Texas ATAMU100010
ASUTexas B1010020
Tennessee AGeorgia Tech A100010
Georgia Tech CLouisville A100010
Georgia Tech BVanderbilt A100010
Bruin AAlabama A100010
Cornell BNYU A10101030
Binghamton ACornell C0000
Haverford BGeorge Washington A0000
Columbia CJohn Jay College100010
Johns Hopkins AMaryland A10101030
Penn BHaverford A0000
Penn ARutgers A1001020
Maryland BVassar A100010
Columbia BYale A100010
RIT ACornell D100010
ESF ARIT B0000
Brandeis BHarvard A010010