Round 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 / and be warm / all the time / not only when you go to bed / and sleep.” This poet called killing “a lack of creation” in a chant poem 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 (-5[1])(*) white writers will “never (-5[1])understand that / all the while I was quite happy.” (-5[1])This poet of the collection Black Judgement (-5[1])closed a 2007 memorial for shooting victims by declaring “We Are Virginia Tech.” For 10 points, what member of the Black Arts Movement wrote the poems “Knoxville, Tennessee” and “Nikki-Rosa”? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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