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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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“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

The Best Is Here to Stay

By David Lehman | August 28, 2018

Of Rivers, Lovers, Battles, and Repetitions

By David Lehman | August 21, 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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