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Terrance Hayes curated a collection of poems about this person, titled Saying His Name, which includes a poem by Patricia Smith that opens with the phrase “Prairie winds blaze through her tumbled belly.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this person who is described as “aweigh. awade in water. bloated / baptized” in a poem by Wanda Coleman. A crown of sonnets named for this person begins “Rosemary for remembrance, Shakespeare wrote.”
ANSWER: Emmett Till (Those poems are “Black, Poured Directly into the Wound,” “Emmett Till,” and A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson.)
[10m] Emmett Till is the subject of a poem whose title mentions a mother from this neighborhood who “loiters in Mississippi.” The same author wrote a 1945 collection named for this neighborhood, which includes the poems “kitchenette building” and “the mother.”
ANSWER: Bronzeville, Chicago [accept “A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon.”; accept A Street in Bronzeville]
[10e] Those Bronzeville poems are by this author of “We Real Cool.”
ANSWER: Gwendolyn Brooks [or Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateToronto A0101020ME
Chicago BToronto C0101020ME
Columbia AChicago A0101020ME
Georgia TechTexas001010E
Illinois ANYU0101020ME
Iowa StateIllinois B0101020ME
LSEMaryland0101020ME
MITIndiana0101020ME
NorthwesternGeorgia State0101020ME
OttawaHarvard001010E
Penn StateVirginia10101030HME
RutgersRIT001010E
StanfordJohns Hopkins0101020ME
Toronto BMichigan10101030HME
UC Berkeley ANorth Carolina B0101020ME
UCFUC Berkeley B001010E
VanderbiltWaterloo A0101020ME
Virginia TechOhio State0101020ME
WUSTL AFlorida10101030HME
WUSTL BBritish Columbia0101020ME
Waterloo BColumbia B001010E
Winona StateMinnesota001010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2218.64100%73%14%