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

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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?
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