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 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 35 | 10 |
| Lorie Au Yeung | UCSC | Berkeley F | 35 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | McGill B | 35 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | MSU 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 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Huntsville B | 35 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 35 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 35 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Johns Hopkins A | 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 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | CWRU B | 55 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Toronto K | 55 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | Clemson B | 55 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Queen's B | 58 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | CWRU C | 60 | -5 |
| Scarlett Strickland | Columbia B | Swarthmore A | 60 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 61 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCLA A | 61 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | OSU D | 62 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Auburn B | 62 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford C | 63 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto C | 63 | -5 |
| Nick Lane | George Washington A | Georgetown B | 63 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 78 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Edinburgh A | 78 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 78 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | City St George's 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 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford A | 82 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF A | UF B | 82 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina A | 82 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | UMBC A | 82 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Columbia C | 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 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | James Madison | 89 | 10 |
| Claire Chambers | Binghamton A | RIT A | 89 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 89 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Rutgers C | 89 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Tennessee B | 89 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | Cambridge C | 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 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | Kenyon A | 111 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty C | 111 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCI | 111 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Oxford B | 115 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | OSU C | 118 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Toronto I | 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 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | Melbourne A | 141 | 0 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | UF D | 141 | 0 |
| Pallas Allen | USF | ERAU B | 141 | 0 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | USF | 141 | 0 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU B | 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 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Georgia Tech D | 141 | 10 |
| Youyou Yu | Imperial C | Cambridge D | 141 | 0 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Imperial C | 141 | 0 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 141 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | Toronto H | 141 | 10 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | George Washington B | 141 | 0 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | George Mason C | 141 | 0 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Bristol B | 141 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Lancaster A | 141 | 0 |