Question
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>
Summary
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 60% | 40% | 20% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 75% | 38% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Binghamton A | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| RIT A | Cornell D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| ESF A | RIT B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |