William Carlos Williams - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 7: Bonus 13

In the first lines of A. R. Ammons’ Garbage, “creepy little creepers” reference a line by this poet to bug the speaker about “writing that great poem / the world’s waiting for.” For 10 points each:

[10e] What Imagist poet of “This Is Just To Say” used triadic lines in “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”?

ANSWER: William Carlos Williams

[10h] Garbage plays on Williams’ claim in “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” that “it is difficult” to do this three-word action “from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”

ANSWER: “get the news”

[10m] News articles are repurposed in documentary poetry like One With Others, which is by a poet with the initials C. D. and this surname. A novelist with this surname wrote almost 4,000 haiku shortly before his 1960 death.

ANSWER: Wright [accept C. D. Wright; accept Richard Wright]

<HA, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-7

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	16.74	93%	65%	9%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	10	10	30	EHM
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	No Country for Old Quizzers	10	0	10	20	EM
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	0	0	10	E
BHSU	Northwestern	10	10	10	30	EHM
Berkeley A	Team 8	10	10	10	30	EHM
C R A B S	Dour Straits	10	0	10	20	EM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	10	0	10	20	EM
Chicago !A	1000000 Delinquents	10	0	10	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20	EM
Contessa Dora	UNC Charity	10	0	10	20	EM
Copán Seethe	David Foster Gromit	10	0	0	10	E
Dielectrical Materialism	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	10	0	0	10	E
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Tennessee A	10	0	10	20	EM
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	Vacuous Tortoise	10	0	10	20	EM
Habitat 67	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	10	0	10	20	EM
I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	Licence to C. Wright Mill	0	0	0	0
Indiana	Invective Against Swans	10	0	0	10	E
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	10	0	0	10	E
Maybe Ever	W&L+Friend	10	0	10	20	EM
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	JHU	10	0	0	10	E
NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	NYU A	10	0	0	10	E
Penn State	Mike and Psmith	10	0	10	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Execute Order 6 7	10	0	10	20	EM
Rosslyn Academic Team	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	10	0	10	20	EM
Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	0	0	10	E
St. Marx	Lex	10	0	0	10	E
Stanford A	Not Old! (Old)	10	0	10	20	EM
Stanford B	Team 7	10	0	0	10	E
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	10	0	0	10	E
The "C" Team	Noah Sheidlower	10	0	10	20	EM
The Fire Neg Time	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	10	0	10	20	EM
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Say It Ain't Zhou	10	0	10	20	EM
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC B	10	0	10	20	EM
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	WashU	10	0	10	20	EM
The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	Guelph Cloze	10	0	10	20	EM
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	10	0	10	20	EM
UBC A	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	10	0	0	10	E
Untitled Keyal Team	Shipping Down from Ballston	10	0	10	20	EM
Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	You Don't Have the Cards	0	0	0	0
William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	Licence to Bill	0	0	0	0
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	0	10	20	EM
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	[Redacted]	10	0	10	20	EM
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Catholic University A	10	10	10	30	EHM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	6.00	40%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%