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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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A Photographer in Words

By David Lehman | March 17, 2026

Resolutions or Regrets

By David Lehman | February 9, 2026

“Is it Consensual, Swan Swooning over the Lady?”

By David Lehman | December 15, 2025

A Leap Without a Safety Net

By David Lehman | November 10, 2025

The Stolen Lines

By David Lehman | September 1, 2025

“Dead Man’s Hand”

By David Lehman | August 4, 2025

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

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

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