1. Name the poet that is most widely-represented in BAP and has yet to be a guest editor.
2. What is the shortest title of a poem ever to appear in BAP?
3. What is the shortest poem ever to appear in a volume?
4. What is the longest poem ever to appear?
5. Which five journals have contributed the greatest number of poems?
6. Estimate the average number of hats-per-volume that an assiduous hat-obsessed reader will encounter in an edition of The Best American Poetry.
7. What color appears most often?
8. How many guest editors have been U.S. poets laureate, and who are they?
8. How many guest editors have been U.S. poets laureate, and who are they?
9. What is the best first name you can have if you are a man and you want to have a poem chosen for BAP?
10. Same question as number 9, for a woman.
11. What last name has designated the greatest number of poets?
12. Name the poet whose first and last names rhyme.
— Lauren MacArthur