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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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Old fashioned mailbox that says LETTERS

Read Emily’s Mind

By David Lehman | May 7, 2019

A black and white photograph of a subway car

Poetic Metamorphosis

By David Lehman | April 30, 2019

The Love Poem in an Unromantic Age

By David Lehman | April 23, 2019

Questions and Echoes

By David Lehman | April 16, 2019

Why Not?

By David Lehman | April 9, 2019

A New Genre

By David Lehman | April 2, 2019

The Lehman Trilogy

By David Lehman | March 26, 2019

Red Eyes and Blue Moons

By David Lehman | March 19, 2019

Two-Word Titles

By David Lehman | March 12, 2019

“The Nakedness of Woman”

By David Lehman | March 21, 2025

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

By David Lehman | February 21, 2025

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

By David Lehman | January 16, 2025

“What a Strange Path”

Three new prompts

By David Lehman | December 16, 2024

“I Have Had My Vision”

Three prompts

By David Lehman | November 22, 2024

In Reprise: Next Line, Please

A new poetry prompt for players new and old

By David Lehman | October 25, 2024

Pencil

A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning

By David Lehman | September 17, 2019

Poetry Noir

By David Lehman | July 30, 2019

Get Hurt—or Go Back to Work

By David Lehman | July 23, 2019

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