Mid-century poets in this language were cultivated by the Blue Star Poetry Society. The contemporary “lower body poets” write in this language, also used by the Neustadt Prize-winning poet of the collection Words as Grain whose pen name consists of the same name twice. The journal Today published lexically “obscure” poems in this language by members of the anti-formalist Misty Poets. English-language books about poetry in this language include Sunflower Splendor and Eliot Weinberger’s book titled for “19 ways” of looking at an 8th-century author. A “written vernacular” form of this language began to be used by poets in the May Fourth Movement. For 10 points, name this language whose contemporary poets may reference classical forms like shī (“shurr”) and cí ■END■
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Ohio State B | 21 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | NYU A | 46 | 10 |
| Jon Suh | Harvard A | Brandeis B | 48 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | UNC B | 60 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | Virginia Tech A | 60 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Illinois A | 60 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago A | 60 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown A | Northwestern B | 60 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Northwestern A | 60 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | TAMU | 60 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Case Western A | 60 | 10 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | Illinois B | 60 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Louisville A | 60 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Alabama A | 60 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Southampton B | 60 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 60 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | WashU B | 61 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas B | 62 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech A | 63 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | Valencia A | 64 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Indiana B | 67 | 10 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Winona State | 67 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 67 | -5 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon A | 67 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Cambridge C | 67 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC D | 70 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Columbia B | 75 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | UMass Boston | 78 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Iowa | 78 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | UW A | 78 | 10 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Manchester | 78 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Penn A | 78 | 10 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 80 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Michigan State | 80 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Iowa State | 81 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Oxford B | 82 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Illinois C | 83 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Vassar A | 84 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 87 | 10 |
| Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | Dartmouth A | 102 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brown A | 102 | 10 |
| Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | UCF C | 102 | -5 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 102 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Liberty A | 105 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Cambridge E | 119 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Liberty B | 120 | 0 |
| Samuel Miller | Liberty B | South Carolina | 120 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Brandeis A | 120 | 10 |
| Raj Doshi | UCF B | Florida State A | 120 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Florida B | 120 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 120 | 10 |
| Leo Tao | Michigan C | Carnegie Mellon B | 120 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | Case Western B | Kenyon | 120 | 10 |
| Alexandra Knight | Liberty C | Wake Forest | 120 | 10 |
| James Zhao | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 120 | 10 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | Haverford B | 120 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Columbia C | 120 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | John Jay College | 120 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington B | 120 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Penn B | 120 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 120 | 10 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | ESF A | 120 | 10 |