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prominent speakers to campus. In 1980 he received a post-doctoral fellowship from the
Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. He then left academe and became a freelance writer. He wrote numerous book reviews and articles for Newsweek and contributed to such other publications as the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Book World, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He became a contributing editor of Columbia College Today in 1982 and of Partisan Review in 1986. In 1987 he joined the board of the National Book Critics Circle and was named vice president in charge of programs and events. In 1988 he founded "The Best American Poetry" annual anthology series.
655:, Lehman addresses his great variety of poetic styles: "I write in a lot of different styles and forms on the theory that the poems all sound like me in the end, so why not make them as different from one another as possible, at least in outward appearance? If you write a new poem every day, you will probably have by the end of the year, if you’re me, an acrostic, an abecedarium, a sonnet or two, a couple of prose poems, poems that have arbitrary restrictions, such as the one I did that has only two words per line."
570:, a public poetry-writing contest. The first project was a crowd-sourced sonnet, "Monday," which was completed in August 2014. There followed a haiku, a tanka, an anagram based on Ralph Waldo Emerson's middle name, a couplet (which grew into a "sonnet ghazal"), and a "shortest story" competition. Lehman devises the puzzles — or prompts — and judges the results. Lehman now writes a monthly column on movies for "The American Scholar".
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European Holocaust refugees in Manhattan's northernmost neighborhood of Inwood. He attended
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418:(Nextbook, 2009) received a 2010 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award from the
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Emergency"
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2000:"A Poetry-Free Presidency," Salon.com, January 19, 2001.
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1824:"Oxford Updates Its Collection of American Poems"
852:Anthologies and edited collections of other poets
751:(The Free Press, 1989; revised ed. Michigan 2000)
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2010:"Where Ignorance is Bliss, Tis Folly To Be Wise"
914:The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997
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630:Monday-night poetry series in New York City’s
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658:Lehman has been awarded fellowships from the
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1331:Beyond Amazement: New Essays on John Ashbery
1317:One hundred autobiographies : a memoir
672:Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award
2209:Television appearance: David Lehman on PBS
443:Lehman's other books of criticism include
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2222:Interview: David Lehman with Jane Hammond
2141:John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1325:Critical studies, reviews and biographies
790:(Doubleday, 1998; Vintage paperback 1979)
660:John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2175:Film adaptation: Lehman's "French Movie"
1350:The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection
785:The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the
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466:(1991). His study of detective novels,
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2095:"Archie: A profile of A. R. Ammons".
685:. He is married to Stacey Harwood.
668:American Academy of Arts and Letters
626:in creating and directing the famed
1946:, October 7, 2009, Smithsonian.com.
1852:A 2009 podcast featuring Lehman on
1372:. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
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238:(1996), all published by Scribner.
2303:Columbia College (New York) alumni
2058:"Peace and War in American Poetry"
1937:Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
1649:"On the Beautiful and the Sublime"
1337:James Merrill: Essays in Criticism
1229:Lehman, David (December 4, 2017).
1190:Poetry Forum: A Play Poem: A Pl'em
1172:Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man
880:The Oxford Book of American Poetry
400:The Oxford Book of American Poetry
252:Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man
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2113:Tom Disch talks with David Lehman
1730:"The Case of the Spurious Spouse"
402:(Oxford University Press, 2006).
206:Lehman's books of poetry include
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388:Lehman is the series editor of
1497:"On the Beautiful and Sublime"
874:The Best American Erotic Poems
820:(Shocken / Random House, 2009)
146:Oxford Book of American Poetry
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470:(1989), was nominated for an
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1927:, ala.org, November 9, 2010.
1814:, Spring 2013, Translations.
1777:Anthology of American Poetry
889:(2006). David Lehman (ed.).
616:University of Michigan Press
491:The New York Review of Books
424:American Library Association
355:Anthology of American Poetry
347:Contemporary American Poetry
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2100:November 10, 2013, at the
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1621:, October 22, 2012, p. 37.
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476:Mystery Writers of America
240:Princeton University Press
2214:January 21, 2014, at the
1942:October 12, 2009, at the
1871:October 23, 2007, at the
1836:"At This Moment in Taste"
1812:Virginia Quarterly Review
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904:The KGB Bar Book of Poems
664:Ingram Merrill Foundation
636:The KGB Bar Book of Poems
378:Virginia Quarterly Review
371:, and his translation of
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1765:, NEA, October 11, 2011.
1701:August 27, 2013, at the
1231:"It could happen to you"
942:The Best American Poetry
806:When a Woman Loves a Man
787:New York School of Poets
742:An alternative to speech
391:The Best American Poetry
248:An Alternative to Speech
224:When a Woman Loves a Man
123:The Best American Poetry
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2199:Interview: David Lehman
2118:April 25, 2009, at the
2085:, Wesleyan Press, 2013.
1973:Cite magazine requires
1502:April 20, 2014, at the
1222:It could happen to you
578:The Collected Poems of
574:The Library of Congress
511:The Wall Street Journal
449:New York Public Library
135:The Wall Street Journal
79:University of Cambridge
56:New York City, New York
1801:"Apollinaire's 'Zone'"
1761:July 14, 2014, at the
1679:July 30, 2013, at the
1654:June 18, 2013, at the
1442:Columbia College Today
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830:Poems in the Manner of
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216:New and Selected Poems
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2246:The Adirondack Review
1790:"Goethe's Nightsong".
1715:"The Escape Artist,"
1693:"Comparative Fates,"
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910:(HarperCollins, 2000)
539:National Public Radio
373:Guillaume Apollinaire
101:Guggenheim Fellowship
2179:Motionpoems Festival
2124:The Courtland Review
2046:The American Scholar
2030:The American Scholar
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174:Cambridge University
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2062:Library of Congress
2042:"Next Line, Please"
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1631:"The Breeder's Cup"
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