A poem by this author opens, “The world begins at a kitchen” where “the gifts of earth are brought and prepared.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of “Perhaps the World Ends Here” who in another poem described creatures with "bodies of sand” and “skins of ocean water.”
ANSWER: Joy Harjo
[10e] Joy Harjo was a holder of this position from 2019 to 2022. Ada Limon will be succeeded in this Library of Congress appointed position by Arthur Sze (“zee”).
ANSWER: United States poet laureate
[10m] This author described people who are “breaking eggs with care / scraping garbage from the plates” in “Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money.” This author created a work of biographical fiction with her novel Blonde.
ANSWER: Joyce Carol Oates
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