Poetry Trivia Questions

In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .

  • July 29

    Question:

    What famous American poet did Ernest Hemingway get into a fist fight with?

    Answer ->

    Wallace Stevens. The scuffle occurred in the Florida Keys in 1936, and it's hard to know what it was about other than both were drunk. Hemingway boasted in a letter that he: "knocked all of him down several times and gave him a good beating." He was 36 and Stevens was 56.

  • July 28

    Question:

    What American poet was the son of the financier Charles E. Merrill, founder of Merrill-Lynch?

    Answer ->

    James Merrill

  • July 27

    Question:

    What African-American Modernist poet was named poet laureate of Liberia in 1947?

    Answer ->

    Melvin B. Tolson

  • July 26

    Question:

    What Anglo-American poet described himself as "a minor Atlantic Goethe"?

    Answer ->

    W.H. Auden

  • July 25

    Question:

    What twentieth-century Southern poet advocated permanent racial segregation earlier in his career, but renounced it later in life and published a book of interviews with African American leaders, including Martin Luther King and Malcolm X?

    Answer ->

    Robert Penn Warren

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