This poet, who exhorted the earth for teaching “the lesson of poverty, / having nothing and wanting nothing,” wrote that the “tongue has one customer, the ear” in a poem whose speaker asserts “Anyone apart from someone he loves / understands what I say.” The speaker laments that “the keeping away is pulling me in” in a poem by this author that opens by asking a “dissolver of sugar” to “dissolve me, / if this is the time.” The disappearance of this poet’s teacher inspired the dedication of many of the 90 ghazals in one of his collections. This poet has been cited as the “best-selling poet in the US” due to Coleman Barks’s translations, one of which renders an opening line as “Listen to the story told by the reed.” For 10 points, name this Sufi poet of the Masnavi, or Spiritual Couplets. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.75 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.17 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 120.92 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.50 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 128.90 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 136.60 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 110.75 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 13% | 106.40 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 118.13 |
| UK | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.78 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | McGill D | 47 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 69 | -5 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 70 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto I | 71 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 77 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Durham B | 77 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 85 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Notre Dame A | 87 | 10 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Southampton B | 88 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 88 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McMaster A | 91 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCLA B | 92 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 92 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 92 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Ottawa | 92 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia D | 93 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Bruin A | 93 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 97 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF B | 97 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame C | 97 | -5 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 97 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 97 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Toronto Metropolitan | 97 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 99 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCSB | 105 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Durham A | 105 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 106 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech C | 106 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley A | 108 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA D | 109 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 109 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 109 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McGill C | 109 | -5 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McGill B | 109 | -5 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Cambridge B | 111 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster C | 112 | -5 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Alberta B | 113 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 113 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 114 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Macalester B | 114 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 114 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas B | 116 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 117 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill A | 122 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UCF B | 126 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago C | 126 | -5 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Chicago D | 130 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 130 | -5 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Southampton A | 136 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph A | McMaster B | 137 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Michigan C | 137 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Minnesota B | 137 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Kentucky | 138 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Purdue B | 138 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Huntsville B | 139 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Bristol B | 139 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Illinois B | 140 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 140 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue C | 143 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 143 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 144 | 0 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | Claremont Pitzer | 144 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Toronto F | 144 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto H | 144 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto C | 144 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UTD A | 144 | 0 |
| Mohammad Khan | UTD A | UTD B | 144 | 0 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Alabama B | 144 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 144 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Michigan B | 144 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Louisville B | 144 | 10 |
| Alden Baker | St. Thomas | Macalester A | 144 | 10 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | Minnesota C | 144 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Wisconsin | 144 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia B | 144 | 10 |
| Alexander Mayans | Arizona State B | Northwestern C | 144 | 0 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Tulsa | 144 | 0 |
| Jarrod Curl | Tulsa | Iowa | 144 | 0 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto A | 144 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto D | 144 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Waterloo | 144 | 10 |