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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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Like People in Novels

By David Lehman | November 6, 2018

An Epigraph in Search of a Poem

By David Lehman | October 30, 2018

“It Was I”

By David Lehman | October 23, 2018

The False Confession

By David Lehman | October 16, 2018

“For Years You’ve Kept Me Hanging …”

By David Lehman | October 10, 2018

A Wardrobe of Excuses

By David Lehman | October 2, 2018

Let the Names Begin

By David Lehman | September 25, 2018

“What’s in a Name?”

By David Lehman | September 18, 2018

The Best of Everything

By David Lehman | September 11, 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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