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 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 88 | 10 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Southampton B | 88 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McMaster A | 91 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 92 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCLA B | 92 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Ottawa | 92 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 92 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia D | 93 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Bruin A | 93 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame C | 97 | -5 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 97 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Toronto Metropolitan | 97 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 97 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF B | 97 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 97 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 109 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Macalester B | 114 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 114 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 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 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago C | 126 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UCF B | 126 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Michigan C | 137 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Minnesota B | 137 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph A | McMaster 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Alexander Mayans | Arizona State B | Northwestern C | 144 | 0 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UTD A | 144 | 0 |
| Mohammad Khan | UTD A | UTD B | 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 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia B | 144 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Tulsa | 144 | 0 |
| Jarrod Curl | Tulsa | Iowa | 144 | 0 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Alabama B | 144 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 144 | 10 |