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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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The Expanse of Spirit

By David Lehman | January 22, 2019

Tributes to May in January

By David Lehman | January 15, 2019

Four-Word Lines

By David Lehman | January 8, 2019

An Ample Meal

By David Lehman | December 18, 2018

The Life of Words

By David Lehman | December 11, 2018

A Hole in One

By David Lehman | December 4, 2018

Time to Tee Up

By David Lehman | November 27, 2018

Hazards, Brawls, and the Value of Bad Titles

By David Lehman | November 20, 2018

Title Precedes Text

By David Lehman | November 13, 2018

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

Chalk outline of a body

Starting With the End

By David Lehman | July 16, 2019

Two rings

The Marriage Equation

By David Lehman | July 9, 2019

A picture of a statue of a man standing on a globe

Patricians and Peasants

By David Lehman | July 2, 2019

Two birds on a wire

Updike on Couples

By David Lehman | June 25, 2019

Person walking down stairs, black and white photo

Nine-Line Stanzas

By David Lehman | June 18, 2019

Black and white "walk" sign

Impromptu

By David Lehman | June 11, 2019

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