#8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $800: This American's verses include "Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks" (Ogden) Nash |
#8071, aired 2019-10-14 | AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE $400: The federal laureate position is technically called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry" by this library the Library of Congress |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $400: This beat poet's most famous poem begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" (Allen) Ginsberg |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $800: Poe wrote, "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of" this beautiful maiden Annabel Lee |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1200: "Candy is Dandy" is a collection of this humorist's best poetry Ogden Nash |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: A Maya Angelou poem says this creature "sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still" the caged bird |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Title vessel referred to in the line, "Oh, better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave" the U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides") |
#5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $400: This subject of a Longfellow poem watched with eager search the belfry-tower of the Old North Church" Paul Revere |
#5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $800: This beat poet's father, Louis, was a teacher & a poet in his own right Allen Ginsberg |
#5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1200: A literary scholar who visited her in Amherst in 1870 described her as plain & having a soft, frightened, childlike voice Emily Dickinson |
#5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: In 1922 this poet & Lincoln biographer wrote "Rootabaga Stories" to entertain his 3 daughters Carl Sandburg |
#5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $2000: Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica" contains the line "A poem should not mean/ but" this be |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $400: Although published as a separate volume in 1865, Whitman's "Drum-taps" was later included in this work Leaves of Grass |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $800: About the lovely Lenore, he wrote, "Wretches! Ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1200: This line follows "Poems are made by fools like me" "But only God can make a tree" |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: Born Dorothy Rothschild, this noted wit began her literary career with a poem published in Vanity Fair Dorothy Parker |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $2000: In 1945 this poet laureate of Illinois published her first volume of poetry, "A Street In Bronzeville" Gwendolyn Brooks |
#4405, aired 2003-10-31 | POETS & POETRY $800: Collier's calls this American lyric poet a "typographical innovator" e.e. cummings |
#4297, aired 2003-04-15 | POETS & POETRY $400: In a poem in this 1855 collection, the author introduced himself as "Walt Whitman, an American" Leaves of Grass |
#3731, aired 2000-11-20 | POETS & POETRY $400: In 1945 this South American country's Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize for Literature Chile |
#3230, aired 1998-09-25 | POETS & POETRY $600: In the second edition of "Leaves Of Grass", this piece was titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, An American" "Song Of Myself" |
#2975, aired 1997-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $800: This midwestern American poet gained new fame in 1990 with "Iron John: A Book About Men" Robert Bly |
#2741, aired 1996-07-01 | POETS & POETRY $1000: He won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Age of Anxiety" 2 years after becoming an American citizen W.H. Auden |
#1207, aired 1989-11-28 | POETS $1000: This American Poet Laureate won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1957 & 1989 Richard Wilbur |