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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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Why Go On?

By David Lehman | July 7, 2025

Reasons for Living

By David Lehman | June 10, 2025

“The Jester’s Magma”

By David Lehman | May 19, 2025

“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

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 Trope of a Nation

By David Lehman | March 5, 2019

Reverse Scrabble

By David Lehman | February 26, 2019

This Was Glory, Too

By David Lehman | February 19, 2019

Stanzaic Choreography

By David Lehman | February 12, 2019

Doubling Down

By David Lehman | February 5, 2019

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