David Lehman

David Lehman, a contributing editor of the Scholar, is a poet, a critic, and an editor. Ithaca, his new book of poems, won The New Criterion Poetry Prize for 2025. He runs the “Next Line, Please” poetry feature on our website.

Reasons for Living

By David Lehman | Tuesday June 10, 2025

“The Jester’s Magma”

By David Lehman | Monday May 19, 2025

“The Overture”

By David Lehman | Friday April 18, 2025

“The Nakedness of Woman”

By David Lehman | Friday March 21, 2025

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

By David Lehman | Friday February 21, 2025

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

By David Lehman | Thursday January 16, 2025

“What a Strange Path”

Three new prompts

By David Lehman | Monday December 16, 2024

“I Have Had My Vision”

Three prompts

By David Lehman | Friday November 22, 2024

In Reprise: Next Line, Please

A new poetry prompt for players new and old

By David Lehman | Friday October 25, 2024

Tunneling to Freedom

In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp

By David Lehman | Thursday June 6, 2024

A Photographer in Words

By David Lehman | Tuesday March 17, 2026

Why Lee Wiley? 

By David Lehman | Monday March 2, 2026

Resolutions or Regrets

By David Lehman | Monday February 9, 2026

A Leap Without a Safety Net

By David Lehman | Monday November 10, 2025

Let’s Write a Villanelle

By David Lehman | Monday October 6, 2025

The Stolen Lines

By David Lehman | Monday September 1, 2025

“Dead Man’s Hand”

By David Lehman | Monday August 4, 2025

Why Go On?

By David Lehman | Monday July 7, 2025

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