This author is described as an “odoriferous poet” by a sentient chair before meeting the composer Benjamin Britten in Alan Bennett’s play The Habit of Art. A poem by this author advises “Let not Time deceive you, / You cannot conquer time” and promises “I’ll love you / Till Africa and China meet, / And the river jumps over the mountain.” This author considered five of his poems to be “trash” and later changed the word “or” in his most famous poem to “and.” Another poem by this author of “As I Walked Out One Evening” bemoans a man who was “my North, my South, my East and West.” One poem by this author begins with the speaker sitting in “one of the dives / On Fifty-second street” and later declares “We must love one another or die.” For 10 points, name this poet of “Funeral Blues” and “September 1, 1939.” ■END■
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| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 99.33 |
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| North | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 103.56 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.83 |
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| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Purdue A | 36 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto J | 40 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame B | 41 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 43 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU D | 43 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 44 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Guelph A | 46 | 10 |
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| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 52 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Chicago A | 52 | -5 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Illinois A | 52 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley C | 54 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA A | 54 | 10 |
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| AJ Wu | Brown C | Brandeis Lloyd George | 58 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Stanford B | 60 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 66 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 70 | -5 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Tufts A | 73 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | Missouri B | 79 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins C | 80 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | ERAU A | 81 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington B | 81 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | WashU D | 81 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Mason C | 82 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | British Columbia D | 82 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | USC | 83 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | Toronto C | 83 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty C | 83 | -5 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Maryland B | 83 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Kentucky | 84 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley F | 86 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia C | 87 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCI | 93 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Pitzer | 95 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Waterloo | 95 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | CWRU B | 95 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt C | 95 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | BU | 96 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Bowdoin A | 96 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Brandeis Wilson | 96 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins B | 100 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | Manchester B | 102 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western Ontario | 104 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Brandeis Orlando | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia B | 104 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 105 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSB | 106 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto I | 106 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Kenyon B | 106 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | Liberty B | 106 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | George Mason A | 106 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Penn A | 106 | -5 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | LSE B | 106 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 107 | 10 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Yale B | 107 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | George Washington A | 108 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago B | 108 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan A | 108 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 108 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Illinois B | 108 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue C | 108 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | BC B | 108 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia A | 108 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | CWRU A | 109 | -5 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | UIC | 109 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 110 | -5 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 125 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 126 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 127 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 127 | -5 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UF C | 131 | -5 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 132 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | McGill A | 133 | -5 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto E | 137 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | ERAU B | 137 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Truman State | 137 | -5 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland D | 141 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | SIUE | 143 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto F | 146 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 146 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Tennessee B | 146 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | ESF | 148 | -5 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | OSU B | 149 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 149 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | Melbourne B | 150 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | James Madison | 150 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina A | 150 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Guelph B | 151 | 0 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 151 | 0 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Queen's B | 151 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF D | 151 | 10 |
| Noah Trochessett | UF D | UF E | 151 | 0 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | CWRU C | 151 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Kenyon A | 151 | 0 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | North Carolina B | 151 | 10 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn A | Maryland C | 151 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | WashU B | 151 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | WashU A | 151 | 10 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | Tufts B | 151 | 10 |
| Jordan Parker-Martin | Rochester | Cornell-DII | 151 | 0 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Binghamton A | 151 | 0 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Binghamton B | 151 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | RIT B | 151 | 10 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell-DII | Rochester | 151 | 0 |