prose poetry - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

Al Mustafa speaks to a crowd while waiting for a ship in a book of aphoristic poems of this type by the Lebanese author Kahlil Gibran (“jib-RAHN”). For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this type of poetry that, unlike verse poetry, forgoes line breaks for blocks of text written in sentences.

ANSWER: prose poetry [or prose poems]

[10e] That book of prose poems by Kahlil Gibran is titled for one of these people. Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses takes its name from a story about Muhammad, an Islamic one of these religious figures.

ANSWER: prophets [accept messengers; accept nabi or rasūl]

[10h] This author depicted an invasion of Lebanon in a prose poem set during Hiroshima Day titled Memory for Forgetfulness. This poet repeated the phrase “Write down! I am Arab!” in his poem “Identity Card.”

ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish

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Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	15.00	83%	58%	8%
Midwest	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	14.17	100%	42%	0%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	44%	22%
Southeast	Main	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
UK (North)	UK	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

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McMaster A	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
NYU C	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Rutgers D	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Johns Hopkins	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Rutgers B	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Penn	Stony Brook	0	10	0	10
Princeton	Lehigh A	10	10	0	20
Rowan	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Rutgers A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers C	Vassar B	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	NYU A	10	0	0	10
WashU Grizzlers	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Boston College A	0	10	0	10
Boston College B	Boston University B	0	10	0	10
Amherst A	Dartmouth A	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Dartmouth C	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Brandeis Mozart	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Vermont B	10	10	0	20
Southern Connecticut State University A	Tufts C	10	10	0	20
Tufts B	Brandeis Bach	0	10	0	10
Vermont A	UConn A	0	10	0	10
Williams A	Brown A	10	10	0	20
Brown B	Williams B	10	10	0	20
MIT B	Williams C	0	10	0	10
Alberta A	Arizona State A	0	10	0	10
Washington State	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
British Columbia C	British Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Texas	Washington Chum	0	10	0	10
Alberta B	Washington Atlantic	10	10	0	20
Washington Chinook	Boise State	0	10	0	10
Washington Masu	Washington Coho	10	10	10	30
Washington Pink	Washington Steelhead	0	10	10	20
Washington Sockeye	Arizona State B	10	10	0	20
Chipola College	Vanderbilt A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Cardiff	10	10	0	20
Cornell D	RIT A	10	10	0	20
Sheffield B	Edinburgh A	10	10	0	20