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Next Line, Please

Each week, our readers contribute a new line of verse—or a completed poem—in collaboration with a renowned poet.

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A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning

by David Lehman | Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Poetry Noir

Poetry Noir

by David Lehman | Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Get Hurt—or Go Back to Work

Get Hurt—or Go Back to Work

by David Lehman | Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Chalk outline of a body

Starting With the End

by David Lehman | Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Two rings

The Marriage Equation

by David Lehman | Tuesday, July 09, 2019
A picture of a statue of a man standing on a globe

Patricians and Peasants

by David Lehman | Tuesday, July 02, 2019
Two birds on a wire

Updike on Couples

by David Lehman | Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Person walking down stairs, black and white photo

Nine-Line Stanzas

by David Lehman | Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Black and white

Impromptu

by David Lehman | Tuesday, June 11, 2019
A Sonnet Is Ample Space

A Sonnet Is Ample Space

by David Lehman | Tuesday, June 04, 2019
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

Writing the Unimaginable

by Amitav Ghosh

Fires, hurricanes, windstorms, and more—as a changing climate wreaks havoc on the U.S., with each coming year slated to be worse than the last, we’re revisiting Amitav Ghosh’s essay from our Autumn 2016 issue. Ghosh was caught in a deadly cyclone in 1978 in New Delhi, leading him to examine how fiction writers should incorporate the devastating effects of climate change into their work. “We have entered a time in human history,” he writes, “when the wild has become the norm.”

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