Greatest Living Poet

* If BESTAM survives another go-round after the whirlwind fistfuck it is gonna receive ("The Trouble With Poetry Part 2: Electric Boogaloo") here be the current odds of who will be asleep at the wheel of the next insta-remainder! The last two guys have been funny (but not ha-ha funny) white guys. Money says serious women, tilting toward the alternative:

Jorie Graham 3-1
Ai 7-1
Alice Notley 7-1
Jean Valentine 8-1
Mei-Mei Bersenbrugge 10-1
Brenda Hillman 20-1
Fanny Howe 20-1
Leslie Scalapino 100-1

My personal favorite darkhorse candidate: John Yau. That would be an issue to like for a few minutes. Or Charles Bernstein (laid out like a phonebook?). And then remember that like 10 of Lehman's students got in and will never be heard from again. And how hot would a Maya Angelou edition of this series be? About as hot as tabasco episode of "Fear Factor!" I dream of an Olena Kalytiak Davis swimsuit edition. Also, a Franz Wright issue would be very, very welcome. Good luck to all the bumper cars in the race!