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.

Tara’s Theme

By David Lehman | Tuesday November 4, 2014

The Shortest Story Ever Told

By David Lehman | Tuesday October 28, 2014

The Couplet

By David Lehman | Tuesday October 14, 2014

The Way of All Whim

By David Lehman | Tuesday October 7, 2014

Diss All Cumbrances

By David Lehman | Tuesday September 30, 2014

Let’s Be Misunderstood

By David Lehman | Tuesday September 23, 2014

A Whim of Irony

By David Lehman | Tuesday September 16, 2014

Old Acrostic, New Acrostic

By David Lehman | Tuesday September 9, 2014

Who’s Waldo?

By David Lehman | Tuesday September 2, 2014

Twentieth-Century Quiz Show

By David Lehman | Thursday May 21, 2026

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

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