This author is described as an “odoriferous poet” by a sentient chair before meeting the composer Benjamin Britten in Alan Bennett’s play The Habit of Art. A poem by this author advises “Let not Time deceive you, / You cannot conquer time” and promises “I’ll love you / Till Africa and China meet, / And the river jumps over the mountain.” This author considered five of his poems to be “trash” and later changed the word “or” in his most famous poem to “and.” Another poem by this author of “As I Walked Out One Evening” bemoans a man who was “my North, my South, my East and West.” One poem by this author begins with the speaker sitting in “one of the dives / On Fifty-second street” and later declares “We must love one another or die.” For 10 points, name this poet of “Funeral Blues” and “September 1, 1939.” ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 61.80 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.83 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 98.09 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 129.75 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 99.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 123.38 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 103.56 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 131.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 18% | 86.20 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 97.91 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.25 |
| UK | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 151.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Queen's A | 25 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Purdue A | 36 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto J | 40 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame B | 41 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 43 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU D | 43 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 44 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Guelph A | 46 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | MSU A | 52 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Illinois A | 52 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 52 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Chicago A | 52 | -5 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley C | 54 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA A | 54 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | BC A | 56 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | Brandeis Lloyd George | 58 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Stanford B | 60 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 66 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 70 | -5 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Tufts A | 73 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | Missouri B | 79 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins C | 80 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | ERAU A | 81 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington B | 81 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | WashU D | 81 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Mason C | 82 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | British Columbia D | 82 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty C | 83 | -5 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Maryland B | 83 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | USC | 83 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | Toronto C | 83 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Kentucky | 84 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley F | 86 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia C | 87 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCI | 93 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Pitzer | 95 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Waterloo | 95 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt C | 95 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | CWRU B | 95 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Brandeis Wilson | 96 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Bowdoin A | 96 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | BU | 96 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins B | 100 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | Manchester B | 102 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western Ontario | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia B | 104 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Brandeis Orlando | 104 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 105 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSB | 106 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Kenyon B | 106 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | LSE B | 106 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Penn A | 106 | -5 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto I | 106 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | Liberty B | 106 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | George Mason A | 106 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 107 | 10 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Yale B | 107 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia A | 108 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago B | 108 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Illinois B | 108 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue C | 108 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | George Washington A | 108 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan A | 108 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 108 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | BC B | 108 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | UIC | 109 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | CWRU A | 109 | -5 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 110 | -5 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 125 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 126 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 127 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 127 | -5 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UF C | 131 | -5 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 132 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | McGill A | 133 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | ERAU B | 137 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto E | 137 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Truman State | 137 | -5 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland D | 141 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | SIUE | 143 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 146 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto F | 146 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Tennessee B | 146 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | ESF | 148 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 149 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | OSU B | 149 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | Melbourne B | 150 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | James Madison | 150 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina A | 150 | 10 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | North Carolina B | 151 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Binghamton A | 151 | 0 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Binghamton B | 151 | 10 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell-DII | Rochester | 151 | 0 |
| Jordan Parker-Martin | Rochester | Cornell-DII | 151 | 0 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | RIT B | 151 | 10 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn A | Maryland C | 151 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | WashU B | 151 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Queen's B | 151 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Guelph B | 151 | 0 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 151 | 0 |
| Noah Trochessett | UF D | UF E | 151 | 0 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF D | 151 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | CWRU C | 151 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Kenyon A | 151 | 0 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | WashU A | 151 | 10 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | Tufts B | 151 | 10 |