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.

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The singer you need to hear now

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

“The Jester’s Magma”

By David Lehman | Monday May 19, 2025

Two Poems

By David Lehman | Tuesday March 11, 2014

Freud’s Immortal Question

By David Lehman | Tuesday September 4, 2012

No R

By David Lehman | Monday June 18, 2012

Why I Love You

By David Lehman | Friday June 3, 2011

Brush Up Your Berlin

By David Lehman | Tuesday September 1, 2009

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