A Joy Harjo poem that quotes this poem begins, “We were running out of breath, as we ran out to meet ourselves.” A bell hooks book titled for this poem is subtitled “Black Men and Masculinity.” The setting of this poem titles a poetic form in which the last word of each line makes a quote and was pioneered by Terrence Hayes. This poem’s author said she was inspired to write this poem after walking past a pool hall in Chicago and thinking “I wonder how they feel about themselves?” This poem from the collection The Bean Eaters is narrated by “pool players” at the “Golden Shovel.” The characters in this poem “Strike straight,” “Jazz June,” and “Die soon.” For 10 points, name this eight-line poem where every line except for the last ends with the word “We,” by Gwendolyn Brooks. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 55.20 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.67 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 76.67 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 20% | 90.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 88.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 0% | 57.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 82.40 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 63.50 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 81.88 |
| UK | Main | Y | 14 | 86% | 0% | 0% | 68.58 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Mississippi State A | 14 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Manchester A | 23 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Western Ontario | 29 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McMaster A | 31 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt B | 32 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Oxford A | 33 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | McGill B | 35 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Johns Hopkins A | 35 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | George Mason B | 35 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | Maryland C | 35 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | Maryland D | 35 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 35 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | MSU A | 35 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Huntsville B | 35 | -5 |
| Lorie Au Yeung | UCSC | Berkeley F | 35 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 35 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 35 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | WashU A | 37 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Cambridge B | 38 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Penn A | 39 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Lehigh B | 40 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU B | 46 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Johns Hopkins B | 51 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | USC | 52 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCLA C | 55 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Toronto K | 55 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | CWRU B | 55 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | Clemson B | 55 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Queen's B | 58 | 10 |
| Scarlett Strickland | Columbia B | Swarthmore A | 60 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | CWRU C | 60 | -5 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCLA A | 61 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 61 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Auburn B | 62 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | OSU D | 62 | -5 |
| Nick Lane | George Washington A | Georgetown B | 63 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto C | 63 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford C | 63 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 78 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 78 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | City St George's A | 78 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Edinburgh A | 78 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | Claremont Pitzer | 80 | 10 |
| Lee Huynh | Guelph B | Carleton | 80 | 10 |
| Eve Maramba | UF A | FIU | 80 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | OSU A | 80 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton B | Durham B | 80 | 10 |
| Henry Lytle | WashU C | William Woods | 81 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | UMBC A | 82 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Columbia C | 82 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF A | UF B | 82 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina A | 82 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford A | 82 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Virginia Tech B | 82 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Alabama B | 84 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto E | 85 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 89 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Rutgers C | 89 | 10 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | James Madison | 89 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | Cambridge C | 89 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Tennessee B | 89 | 10 |
| Claire Chambers | Binghamton A | RIT A | 89 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 89 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU D | 90 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Roanoke | 90 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto F | 91 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh A | Rowan A | 97 | -5 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto J | 97 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UF E | 99 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 99 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Waterloo | 100 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Sewanee A | 105 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | South Carolina B | 106 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Alabama A | 106 | -5 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCI | 111 | 10 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | Kenyon A | 111 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty C | 111 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Oxford B | 115 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Toronto I | 118 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | OSU C | 118 | 10 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | Pitt C | 130 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | George Mason A | 138 | 10 |
| Tomas Ospina | Alabama A | UAB A | 139 | 10 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | George Washington B | 141 | 0 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | George Mason C | 141 | 0 |
| Raifton Bartling | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 141 | 0 |
| Adrian Chuang | Penn B | Johns Hopkins C | 141 | 0 |
| John Shelly | Rowan A | Lehigh A | 141 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | Toronto H | 141 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | Melbourne A | 141 | 0 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | UF D | 141 | 0 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU B | 141 | 0 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Georgia Tech D | 141 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Bristol B | 141 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Lancaster A | 141 | 0 |
| Pallas Allen | USF | ERAU B | 141 | 0 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | USF | 141 | 0 |
| Youyou Yu | Imperial C | Cambridge D | 141 | 0 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Imperial C | 141 | 0 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 141 | 10 |