Packet 3: Bonus 3

Answer the following about contemporary adaptations of sonnet form, for 10 points each.
[10m] Terrance Hayes paid homage to Wanda Coleman sonnets described by this adjective in a collection “for my past and future assassin.” Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely are subtitled as this kind of lyric.
ANSWER: American [accept American Sonnets; accept American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin; accept Citizen: an American Lyric; accept Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: an American Lyric]
[10h] This poet wrote “Poverty, like a sonnet, is a good teacher” in one of the irregular 14-line poems that make up frank: sonnets. A 2024 A. O. Scott review gives an adoring line-by-line reading of “Romantic Poet” from this author’s collection Modern Poetry.
ANSWER: Diane Seuss
[10e] Jericho Brown’s “duplexes” graft elements from the blues and this form onto the sonnet. Agha Shahid Ali collections like Call Me Ishmael Tonight adapt this originally Persian or Urdu form of ode into English.
ANSWER: ghazal (“GUH-zull”)
<Editors, American Literature> | L. Playoffs 3 (Editors 3)

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2418.3392%83%8%

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BruinNYU B1001020ME
Chicago AVirginia Tech1001020ME
Chicago BCornell1001020ME
Columbia AUC Berkeley B1001020ME
GeorgetownPurdue10101030MHE
Georgia Tech APenn State001010E
Georgia Tech BJohns Hopkins1001020ME
Illinois AMinnesota1001020ME
IndianaUC Berkeley A1001020ME
MITCambridge1001020ME
Maryland AStanford A1001020ME
Maryland BBrown1001020ME
MichiganOhio State1001020ME
NYU AToronto A1001020ME
Northwestern AHarvard1001020ME
Northwestern BUCF001010E
PittsburghToronto B10101030MHE
Stanford BRutgers0000
SwarthmoreIllinois B1001020ME
TexasGeorgia Tech C1001020ME
UCLAWashU1001020ME
VanderbiltBritish Columbia1001020ME
VirginiaColumbia B1001020ME
WaterlooNorth Carolina0000

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2418.3392%83%8%