Key West - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

In a poem partly titled for this place, the speaker turns to look at “glassy lights… in the fishing boats at anchor” with a friend who shares his name with the literary critic Ramon Fernandez. For 10 points each:

[10h] What place partly titles a poem whose speaker listens to “the single artificer of the world” who “sang beyond the genius of the sea?”

ANSWER: Key West [accept “The Idea of Order at Key West”]

[10m] While living in Key West, this poet sent letters and a draft of her poem “The Fish” to her mentor Marianne Moore. This poet also wrote a poem that begins “the art of losing isn’t hard to master.”

ANSWER: Elizabeth Bishop (The unnamed poem is “One Art.”)

[10e] Bishop lived in Key West with a partner who had this last name. An author with this last name included “In the Desert” in his collection The Black Riders and wrote The Red Badge of Courage.

ANSWER: Crane [accept Stephen Crane; accept Louise Crane]

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California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	16.67	75%	67%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	22.50	100%	88%	38%
North	Main	Y	10	19.00	90%	70%	30%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	42%	25%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	18.33	83%	67%	33%
UK	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley F	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley E	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Stanford C	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley D	UCSC	10	10	10	30
UCSB	Claremont Scripps	0	0	10	10
UCI	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
UCLA D	Claremont Pitzer	10	10	10	30
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	10	20
UCLA C	USC	0	0	10	10
McGill A	Queen's B	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Guelph B	0	0	0	0
Toronto G	McMaster C	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto C	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Guelph A	10	10	10	30
Toronto E	Toronto D	0	0	0	0
Carleton	Toronto I	0	10	10	20
McGill C	Toronto J	0	10	10	20
Toronto K	Toronto F	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Queen's A	0	0	10	10
Toronto H	Waterloo	10	10	10	30
McMaster A	Western Ontario	0	10	10	20
UCF A	ERAU B	0	0	10	10
FIU	UF A	0	0	10	10
Melbourne B	UF B	0	0	0	0
UCF B	ERAU A	0	10	10	20
UF C	USF	0	0	10	10
OSU B	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
CWRU C	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
Pitt A	CWRU D	10	10	10	30
Pitt B	Kenyon A	0	0	10	10
OSU C	MSU A	10	10	10	30
MSU B	Kenyon B	0	10	10	20
OSU A	Pitt C	0	10	10	20
UF E	UF D	0	0	10	10
Roanoke	James Madison	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Liberty C	10	10	10	30
South Carolina A	NC State	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	South Carolina B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina C	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	Liberty B	10	10	10	30
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Catholic University	Penn B	0	0	0	0
George Mason B	Maryland D	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame E	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
VCU A	George Washington A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	George Washington B	10	10	10	30
Georgetown B	George Mason A	10	10	10	30
Georgetown A	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Johns Hopkins C	10	10	10	30
Penn A	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Truman State	0	0	10	10
WashU A	WashU D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	WashU C	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Chicago C	UIC	0	0	10	10
Michigan D	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Kentucky	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Notre Dame D	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin A	Amherst A	0	0	0	0
BC A	Yale A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	Amherst B	0	0	10	10
MIT A	Brandeis Orlando	10	10	10	30
Harvard	Brandeis Wilson	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin B	Brown B	0	0	10	10
Brown C	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	10	20
Cornell-UG	BU	10	10	10	30
MIT B	Tufts B	0	10	10	20
Brown A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
BC B	Williams	0	0	0	0
Dartmouth	Yale B	0	10	10	20
British Columbia A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
British Columbia B	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Washington A	British Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh B	LSE B	0	0	0	0
Manchester B	Bristol A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
British Columbia D	Washington B	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	ESF	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Binghamton B	0	10	10	20
Cornell-DII	Rochester	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Syracuse	0	10	10	20