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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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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

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 Bold Caravan Departs

By David Lehman | July 24, 2018

The Alphabet as Hero

By David Lehman | July 17, 2018

The Interplay of Voices

By David Lehman | July 10, 2018

The Violet of Roses

By David Lehman | July 3, 2018

Companionable Poems

By David Lehman | June 26, 2018

Your Ghostly Companion

By David Lehman | June 19, 2018

Long Ago, Shortly After …

By David Lehman | June 12, 2018

Long Story Short (But I Could Be Wrong)

By David Lehman | June 5, 2018

Homage to Anna Kamienska

By David Lehman | May 29, 2018

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