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.

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

Homage to the Uncanny

Dead of Night (1945), a masterpiece of horror

By David Lehman | Thursday February 29, 2024

How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock?

A multiple-choice test for the maestro’s fans

By David Lehman | Friday January 19, 2024

“Mr. Lucky” Didn’t Know Who He Was

How Cary Grant’s magical film career paralleled a lifelong identity crisis

By David Lehman | Thursday September 28, 2023

Brilliant Carnage

Sam Peckinpah’s slow-motion bullet ballet

By David Lehman | Thursday February 23, 2023

What Hath Gable Got?

“Rhett Butler” romances Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra’s comic masterpiece It Happened One Night

By David Lehman | Monday November 28, 2022

Reverse Scrabble

By David Lehman | Tuesday February 26, 2019

This Was Glory, Too

By David Lehman | Tuesday February 19, 2019

Stanzaic Choreography

By David Lehman | Tuesday February 12, 2019

Doubling Down

By David Lehman | Tuesday February 5, 2019

Beneath a Blood Wolf Moon

By David Lehman | Tuesday January 29, 2019

The Expanse of Spirit

By David Lehman | Tuesday January 22, 2019

Tributes to May in January

By David Lehman | Tuesday January 15, 2019

Four-Word Lines

By David Lehman | Tuesday January 8, 2019

An Ample Meal

By David Lehman | Tuesday December 18, 2018

The Life of Words

By David Lehman | Tuesday December 11, 2018

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