From Gabe Gudding: "Best American Poetry: ?"

Any help with the below would be appreciated.

I was asked to be a guest blogger for the duration of this week at the BAP
blog ("Best American Poetry").
Since the Scribner BAP series began in 1988, the formulation "best american
poetry" has not-so-intentionally underscored the politics of aesthetic
assessment, anthology making, nationalism in letters, and the cult of the
virtuoso. Clearly BAP as a formulation can (and often has) been easily read
as code that tacitly asks for a collective misrecognition of oral, visual,
and concrete poetics, diaspora poetics, oppositional poetics, much
ethnopoetics, race and racialized poetics, dysraphic poetics, and the
sociology of assessment and symbolic economies in general.

I want to post a series of individual, signed,
sentences/aphorisms/paragraphs by people from this list concerning the
formulation "best american poetry" andor poetry/poetics in general. If you
want to include text from others, please give a brief citation. No word
limit.

The sooner the better (will post as I acquire them) -- but all please by
Wednesday.

If you could email those to me ([email protected]) or post them here
frontchannel, I'd appreciate it. I'll post them all to the blog. The only
proviso for their blog: no personal attacks.

If you need a cue beyond the above, I'd ask you to reply to this
formulation: "Best American Poetry: ?"

Thanks.

Gabe