Louise Glück - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about contemporary American poetry inspired by the Odyssey, for 10 points each.

[10m] This poet retold the Odyssey in her 1996 book Meadowlands and retold part of the Iliad in her collection The Triumph of Achilles. This author of The Wild Iris won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and died in 2023.

ANSWER: Louise Glück

[10h] The Odyssey informs the titles of this collection’s poems “Telemachus,” “Trojan,” and “Odysseus Redux.” A poem from this collection imagines “you take the knife to the wall” and opens, “suppose you do change your life.”

ANSWER: Night Sky with Exit Wounds (by Ocean Vuong)

[10e] Barbara Hamby retold the Odyssey in six sonnets in a 2018 collection titled for the “Odyssey” of one of these animals. Wallace Stevens wrote about “Thirteen Ways of Looking at” one of these animals.

ANSWER: birds [accept Bird Odyssey; accept “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
Canada	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	67%	67%	67%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
South Central	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	24.29	100%	71%	71%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
UCSD B	UCSD A	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	Guelph	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	McGill A	0	0	10	10
Ottawa	Toronto B	0	0	10	10
Simon Fraser	Toronto C	0	10	10	20
UBC A	Waterloo A	10	0	10	20
Carleton University	UBC B	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	10	10	10	30
Michigan State	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
CWRU B	Pittsburgh	0	0	10	10
Duke	North Carolina A	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina C	10	10	10	30
South Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
William and Mary	VCU	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth B	Brown	0	0	0	0
Chicago B	Illinois A	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Chicago E	10	0	10	20
Indiana B	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Southern Connecticut State	10	10	10	30
MIT	Yale	10	10	10	30
Texas A	Texas B	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
Bruin	WashU A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
WashU B	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	City St. George's	10	0	10	20
LSE	Cambridge C	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Imperial C	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	Catholic	0	10	10	20
John Jay	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia A	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A	Maryland C	0	0	10	10
Georgetown	Swarthmore	10	10	10	30
RIT	Penn State	0	0	10	10