Question
Terisa Siagatonu discussed this phenomenon in poems including “Atlas,” which she presented in front of the United Nations. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this phenomenon central to a poem by Craig Santos Perez inspired by “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” This phenomenon is explored in activist Greta Thunberg’s No One is Too Small to Make a Difference.
ANSWER: climate change [or global warming]
[10m] For his climate change poetry, Perez won the 2011 Literary Award for Poetry run by this nonprofit organization with a three-letter acronym that defends free expression in literature.
ANSWER: PEN America [or PEN American Center; the acronym comes from "Poets, Essayists, Novelists"]
[10h] Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner addressed one of these people in “Dear Matafele Peinem” at the 2014 UN Climate Summit. A poem depicting a “fat gold watch” opens a poem addressed to one of these people, “Morning Song.”
ANSWER: the poet's child [or the poet's daughter; or son] ("Morning Song" is by Sylvia Plath.)
<Noah Sheidlower, World Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 50% | 50% | 25% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 0% | 50% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 7.14 | 57% | 14% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 20% | 100% | 40% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Brandeis | Brown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MIT | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Boston College | Tufts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |