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 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 92 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Ottawa | 92 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 92 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCLA B | 92 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia D | 93 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Bruin A | 93 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF B | 97 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 97 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Toronto Metropolitan | 97 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 97 | -5 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 97 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame C | 97 | -5 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 99 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Durham A | 105 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCSB | 105 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech C | 106 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 106 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley A | 108 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McGill C | 109 | -5 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McGill B | 109 | -5 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 109 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 109 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA D | 109 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Cambridge B | 111 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster C | 112 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 113 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Alberta B | 113 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 114 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 114 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Macalester B | 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 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 130 | -5 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Chicago D | 130 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 140 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Illinois B | 140 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 143 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue C | 143 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto A | 144 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto D | 144 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Waterloo | 144 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 144 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto H | 144 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto C | 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 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UTD A | 144 | 0 |
| Mohammad Khan | UTD A | UTD B | 144 | 0 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Alabama B | 144 | 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 |
| 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 |