Packet 6: Tossup 9

This poet repeated “I demand that he be a man” to rebut an older writer’s opinions on gender roles in a TV conversation collected as the book A Dialogue. One of this poet’s speakers describes a time when you can “go barefooted (15[1])/ and be warm / all the time / not only when you go to bed / and sleep.” This poet called killing “a lack of creation” (15[1])in a chant poem (-5[1])that received a standing ovation from a crowd that included George W. Bush. This author lists childhood joys like a big tub in a poem that asserts (15[1]-5[1])(*) white writers will “never (-5[1])understand that / all the while I was quite (10[1])happy.” (10[1]-5[1])This poet of the collection Black Judgement (-5[1])closed a 2007 memorial (-5[2])for shooting victims (10[1])by declaring (10[2]-5[1])“We Are (10[3])Virginia (10[2])Tech.” (-5[1])For 10 points, what member (-5[1])of the Black Arts Movement wrote the poems (10[1]-5[1])“Knoxville, Tennessee” and (10[1])“Nikki-Rosa”? ■END■ (10[8]0[15])

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