In a poem by this author, the title creature “says the highway dust is over all” and predicts “that other fall we name the fall.” In another poem by this author, “part of a moon” falls “down the west” and drags “the whole sky with it to the hills.” This author of “The Oven Bird” wrote a poem that defines “home” as “the place where… they have to take you in” and begins with Mary waiting for her husband who says, “Silas is back.” In another poem by this author, a “little horse” “gives his harness bells a shake” to ask the speaker “if there is some mistake.” That poem by this author ends, “I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep.” For 10 points, name this author of monologues like “The Death of the Hired Man” who also wrote “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.” ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 0% | 113.50 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 94.33 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.25 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.67 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 54.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 68.50 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.60 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 106.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.50 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.75 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Purdue B | 15 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 15 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McGill C | 38 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 54 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 54 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 55 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCLA B | 57 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Notre Dame A | 57 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 57 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Macalester B | 58 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 60 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | McGill D | 60 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto K | 62 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas B | 63 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley A | 64 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 67 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UCO | 68 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia D | 69 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 70 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 70 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto I | 70 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 70 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 73 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Chicago D | 78 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | UAB A | 81 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt B | 83 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Sheffield A | 83 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill A | 84 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 85 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Michigan B | 86 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UCF B | 90 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 98 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster C | 98 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 98 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | City St George's A | 98 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 102 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 102 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Louisville B | 102 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 102 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 102 | 10 |
| Marin Burg | St. Thomas | Macalester A | 105 | 10 |
| Eve Maramba | UF A | UF E | 107 | 10 |
| Nihal Jacob | Kentucky | Purdue A | 107 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 107 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UTD A | 107 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 107 | 10 |
| Alex Feller | Minnesota C | Nebraska | 116 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCLA A | 118 | -5 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCSB | 118 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Purdue C | 118 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Wisconsin | 118 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 121 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McMaster A | 121 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Guelph A | 121 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McGill B | 121 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford A | Southampton A | 123 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 124 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Huntsville B | 125 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western Ontario | 126 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Illinois B | 126 | 10 |
| Ai Xing | Minnesota B | Minnesota A | 126 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | Tulsa | 126 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Manchester A | 126 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Guelph B | 132 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | FIU | 144 | 10 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | UIC | 151 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol B | Cambridge C | 151 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Waterloo | 152 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 152 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 152 | 10 |
| Charlie Castleton | Sheffield C | Imperial C | 152 | 0 |
| David Latimer | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 152 | 0 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Southampton B | 152 | 10 |