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.

Two Philosophers

What would Kierkegaard and Hegel do about the crises of our day?

By David Lehman | Monday June 9, 2014

Two Poems

By David Lehman | Tuesday March 11, 2014

Freud’s Immortal Question

Or, one student’s adventures in higher learning

By David Lehman | Tuesday September 4, 2012

No R

Kaminsky knows how to survive in the business: start a magazine that almost nobody can understand, and become the darling of the academy

By David Lehman | Monday June 18, 2012

Why I Love You

By David Lehman | Friday June 3, 2011

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

Reasons for Living

By David Lehman | Tuesday June 10, 2025

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