| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $600: If you read "If—", you'll be taking a look / At a poem by this author of "The Jungle Book" Kipling |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NO CAP $900: It can be a type of joke or the title "Cats" in a T.S. Eliot book of poems
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| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $1000: A collection of poems: "I celebrate myself, & sing myself, & what I assume you shall assume" Leaves of Grass |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" is a book of poems by this man better known as a rapper Tupac Shakur |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | THE CUBISTS $5,900 (Daily Double): "Tender Buttons", written by this American expatriate while she was living in Paris, is a book of Cubist still-life prose-poems Gertrude Stein |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $800: Born off Queensland, Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote "We Are Going", the 1st book of poems by a person of this ethnicity Aboriginal |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | WOMEN POETS $2000: Known for her confessional poetry, she won a 2013 Pulitzer Prize for "Stag's Leap", a book of poems about her divorce Sharon Olds |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | WHERE'S THAT BOOK? $400: "Where the Sidewalk Ends" is a collection of his poems & drawings Shel Silverstein |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $200: In 1890 she was 4 years dead / & her 1st book of poems was read / It was a big hit & such / For a lady who did not get out much (Emily) Dickinson |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES $400: "The Book Of The Blind" gives rhyming tips on how to survive a level in this game, Spanish for "devil" Diablo |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: To finance a move to Jamaica in 1786, this Scotsman began selling a book of his poems that became a huge hit; he didn't move Robert Burns |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: In 1831 he published a book of poems called "Les Feuilles d'automnes", as well as that hunchback novel (Victor) Hugo |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | A BOOK OF POEMS $400: This collection had a follow-up, "The New Spoon River" Spoon River Anthology |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | A BOOK OF POEMS $800: In Arabic "rubai'i" refers to a type of 4-line verse, & this is a book of them, like Omar Khayyam's a rubaiyat |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | A BOOK OF POEMS $1200: In 1923 he published the collection "New Hampshire" Robert Frost |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | A BOOK OF POEMS $1600: "The Lamb" & "The Shepherd" are found in these William Blake "songs" from 1789 Songs of Innocence |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | A BOOK OF POEMS $2000: Critic Hippolyte Babou suggested the title of Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal", which translates as this The Flowers of Evil |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $600: "Seldom does a first book contain so few unsuccessful things", said Amy Lowell of his "Chicago Poems" Sandburg |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | A WORLD OF "P"OETS $2000: "Peace" be with this Mexican, who published "Luna Silvestre", his first book of poems, when he was 19 (Octavio) Paz |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | HELLO, ETHAN $2000: "The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way" is a book of poems by this man who produced "Miller's Crossing" Ethan Coen |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | CLOTHES ENCOUNTERS $200: The costumes for this long-running musical based on a T.S. Eliot book of poems include pointy ears & tails Cats |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | LITERATURE $200: This quintessential New Englander published his first book of poems, "A Boy's Will", while living in England in 1913 Robert Frost |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: "The Cinnamon Peeler" is a book of poems by this Ceylon-born author of "The English Patient" Michael Ondaatje |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | A BOOK OF VERSES $100: Whitman's book of Civil War poems "Drum-Taps" later became a part of this larger collection "Leaves of Grass" |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | A BOOK OF VERSES $300: Robert called her "My Little Portuguese" & her poems to him are "Sonnets From the Portuguese" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | A BOOK OF VERSES $500: In 1924 "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" established this Chilean poet's reputation Pablo Neruda |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: This Mississippi-born novelist published his 2nd & last book of poems, "A Green Bough", in 1933 William Faulkner |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | LOVE $600 (Daily Double): This book of the Old Testament is basically a collection of love poems Song of Solomon |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | LITERATURE $1000: In 1820 this sonnet writer's father privately published a book of her poems, "The Battle of Marathon" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: This "Private Lives" playwright wrote a book of poems under the pen name Hernia Whittlebot Noël Coward |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: This creator of The Pushmi-Pullyu also wrote "Porridge Poetry", a book of poems for children Hugh Lofting |
| #1641, aired 1991-10-21 | LITERATURE $600: In 1895 he published "The Black Riders", a book of poems, & the novel "The Red Badge of Courage" Stephen Crane |
| #1134, aired 1989-07-06 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: After he wrote "Omoo" & "The Whale", he published a book of Civil War poems called "Battle-Pieces" Herman Melville |
| #913, aired 1988-07-20 | PEN NAMES $400: British sisters who published a book of poems under the names Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell the Bronte sisters |
