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A poem by this author opens by declaring, “We are gardeners who have no flowers.” In 2019, a prize named for this author was given to Kamila Shamsie before it was revoked due to her support for BDS. This author’s motifs of dust, sand, and butterflies appear in her book-length poems Glowing Enigmas and Flight and Metamorphosis. This author was the dedicatee of a poem that ends “We / really don’t / know / what counts” about a meeting (-5[1])at the Stork Inn. The title objects of a poem by this author are described as “the road for refugees to smoke” and “ingeniously devised habitations of death.” (-5[1])This author escaped her home country with the help of Selma Lagerlöf and had a lengthy correspondence with Paul Celan (“SAY-lon”). Shmuel Yosef (10[1])Agnon and this author of “O the Chimneys” (10[1])shared the 1966 (10[1])Nobel (10[1])Prize in Literature. For 10 points, name this poet who fled (-5[1])from Germany to (10[1])Sweden to escape the Holocaust. (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[10])

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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y1663%0%19%149.50

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tracy MirkinFlorida AGeorgia Tech A78-5
Anson BernsBrown AMaryland A106-5
Tim MorrisonStanford AYale A12810
Chris RayOhio State AChicago B13610
Andrew HannaVanderbilt APurdue A13910
Matt JacksonChicago AWUSTL A14010
Ani PerumallaPenn State AIowa State A151-5
Enoch YuenImperial AFlorida B15410
Guy IndoranteIowa State APenn State A15910
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota ACornell B15910
Halle FriedmanNYU ARutgers B1600
Collin AceRutgers BNYU A1600
Sharath NarayanNorthwestern ATexas A1600
Jisoo YooTexas ANorthwestern A1600
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BVirginia A1600
David BassVirginia AWUSTL B1600
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina AIllinois A16010
Ricky LiMIT AIndiana A1600
Justin HawkinsIndiana AMIT A1600
Caleb KendrickMaryland ABrown A16010
Jim FanNorth Carolina AColumbia A1600
Jerry LinDuke ACornell A1600
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AFlorida A16010