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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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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

Like People in Novels

By David Lehman | November 6, 2018

An Epigraph in Search of a Poem

By David Lehman | October 30, 2018

“The Overture”

By David Lehman | April 18, 2025

“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

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