Gwendolyn - 2025 ACF Regionals

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]

<HG, American Literature>

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	13.75	75%	38%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%

Data


Florida A	Valencia A	10	0	10	20
Florida State A	UCF B	0	0	0	0
Florida B	UCF C	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Carnegie Mellon A	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	Carnegie Mellon B	10	0	10	20
Case Western B	Kenyon	10	0	10	20
Michigan D	Ohio State B	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Michigan State	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Case Western A	10	0	10	20
Liberty A	Duke	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	South Carolina	0	0	0	0
William & Mary	UNC B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC C	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	UNC D	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Illinois B	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago C	10	0	10	20
Chicago D	Chicago A	10	0	0	10
Illinois C	Missouri	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
WashU B	Indiana A	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Carleton	10	0	0	10
Minnesota B	Winona State	10	0	0	10
Wisconsin A	Wisconsin B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	BU	10	0	10	20
Brandeis B	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
Harvard B	Dartmouth A	10	0	0	10
Tufts A	Brown A	0	0	0	0
MIT A	UMass Boston	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	Georgetown A	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame C	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
Purdue	Iowa	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
UW B	Alberta	10	0	0	10
UBC	UW A	10	0	0	10
ASU	Texas B	10	10	0	20
Texas A	TAMU	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10
Cornell B	NYU A	10	10	10	30
Haverford B	George Washington A	0	0	0	0
Columbia C	John Jay College	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Penn B	Haverford A	0	0	0	0
Penn A	Rutgers A	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Yale A	10	0	0	10
Bruin A	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
Binghamton A	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
RIT A	Cornell D	10	0	0	10
ESF A	RIT B	0	0	0	0