An author with this first name tells the addressee, “I love you for your brownness / and the rounded darkness of your breast” in the poem “To a Dark Girl.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this first name of a Harlem Renaissance poet with the surname Bennett. Another poet with this first name created a group of pool players who exclaim, “We / Jazz June. We / Die soon.” in “We Real Cool.”
ANSWER: Gwendolyn [accept Gwendolyn Bennett; accept Gwendolyn Brooks or Gwen Brooks]
[10h] The narrator wishes, “I want to see the slim palm trees / pulling at the clouds / with little pointed fingers” in a Gwendolyn Bennett poem with this title. Another poem with this title repeats the question, “what is Africa to me?”
ANSWER: “Heritage” (The other poem is by Countee Cullen.)
[10m] Bennett contributed the story “Wedding Day” to a one-issue magazine titled for this thing. This thing titles a book that recounts a talk with Elijah Muhammad in the section “Letter from a Region in my Mind.”
ANSWER: fire [accept Fire!! or The Fire Next Time]
<HG, American Literature>