David Lehman

David Lehman, a contributing editor of the Scholar, is a poet, critic, and the general editor of The Best American Poetry annual anthology and author of the book One Hundred Autobiographies. He currently writes our Talking Pictures column.

Play It, Sam

By David Lehman | Tuesday August 2, 2016

A Snifter and a Hoodie

By David Lehman | Tuesday July 26, 2016

Good-For-You Chocolate

By David Lehman | Tuesday July 19, 2016

Control Panel

By David Lehman | Tuesday July 12, 2016

You Choose

By David Lehman | Tuesday July 5, 2016

Looking for Line One

By David Lehman | Tuesday June 28, 2016

Title Search

By David Lehman | Tuesday June 21, 2016

Reasons to Live

By David Lehman | Tuesday June 14, 2016

You Must Get Drunk

By David Lehman | Tuesday June 7, 2016

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

By David Lehman | Friday February 21, 2025

Above the River of Your Longing

By David Lehman | Thursday January 16, 2025

“What a Strange Path”

By David Lehman | Monday December 16, 2024

“I Have Had My Vision”

By David Lehman | Friday November 22, 2024

In Reprise: Next Line, Please

By David Lehman | Friday October 25, 2024

Tunneling to Freedom

By David Lehman | Thursday June 6, 2024

Homage to the Uncanny

By David Lehman | Thursday February 29, 2024

How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock?

By David Lehman | Friday January 19, 2024

“Mr. Lucky” Didn’t Know Who He Was

By David Lehman | Thursday September 28, 2023

Brilliant Carnage

By David Lehman | Thursday February 23, 2023

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