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David Lehman (born June 11, 1948) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and literary critic, and the founder and series editor for The Best American Poetry. He was a writer and freelance journalist for fifteen years, writing for such publications as Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. In 2006, Lehman served as Editor for the new Oxford Book of American Poetry. He taught and was the Poetry Coordinator at The New School in New York City until May 2018. Career Born in New York City on June 11, 1948, David Lehman grew up the son of European Holocaust refugees in Manhattan's northernmost neighborhood of Inwood. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Columbia University, and Cambridge University in England on a Kellett Fellowship. On his return to New York, he received a Ph.D. in English from Columbia, where he was Lionel Trilling's research assistant. Lehman's poem "The Presidential Years" appeared in The Paris Review No. 43 (Summer 1968) while he was a Columbia undergraduate. The poem was awarded Columbia's Van Rensselaer Poetry Prize in 1967. In 1970 he was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Lehman taught at Brooklyn College, where he shared an office with John Ashbery, for a year. For four years starting in 1976, he was an assistant professor of English at Hamilton College, teaching courses in literature and creative writing and chairing the college's lecture committee, bringing 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. The Perfect Murder (1989) and Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man (1991) were his first nonfiction books. Lehman's books of poetry include Playlist (2019), Poems in the Manner Of (2017), New and Selected Poems (2013), Yeshiva Boys (2009), When a Woman Loves a Man (2005), The Evening Sun (2002), The Daily Mirror (2000), and Valentine Place (1996), all published by Scribner. Princeton University Press published Operation Memory (1990), and An Alternative to Speech (1986). He collaborated with James Cummins on a book of sestinas, Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (Soft Skull Press, 2005), and with Judith Hall on a book of poems and collages, Poetry Forum (Bayeux Arts, 2007). Since 2009, new poems have been published in 32 Poems, The Atlantic, The Awl, Barrow Street, The Common, Green Mountains Review, Hanging Loose, Hot Street, New Ohio Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, Poetry London, Sentence, Smartish Pace, Slate, and The Yale Review. Lehman's poems appear in Chinese in the bilingual anthology, Contemporary American Poetry, published through a partnership between the NEA and the Chinese government, and in the Mongolian-English Anthology of American Poetry. Lehman's work has been translated into 16 languages overall, including Spanish, French, German, Danish, Russian, Polish, Korean and Japanese. In 2013, his translation of Goethe’s "Wandrers Nachtlied" into English appeared under the title "Goethe’s Nightsong" in The New Republic, and his translation of Guillaume Apollinaire’s "Zone" was published with an introductory essay in Virginia Quarterly Review. The translation and commentary won the journal's Emily Clark Balch Prize for 2014. Additionally, his poem, "French Movie" appears in the third season of Motionpoems. Lehman is the series editor of The Best American Poetry. The prestigious annual series has 33 volumes published (including special tenth and twenty-fifth anniversary editions); the current (2019) volume was edited by Major Jackson. Further, Lehman has edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006). The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present (Scribner, 2008), and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003). He is the author of nine nonfiction books, including, most recently, "One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir" (2019), "Sinatra's Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World (2015), and "The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014" (2015). A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Nextbook, 2009) received a 2010 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Sponsored by the American Library Association, Lehman curated, wrote, and designed a traveling library exhibit based on A Fine Romance that toured 55 libraries in 27 states between May 2011 and April 2012 with appearances at three libraries in New York state and Maryland. In an interview published in Smithsonian Magazine, Lehman discusses the artistry of the great lyricists: “The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy ... these lyricists needed to work within boundaries, to get complicated emotions across and fit the lyrics to the music, and to the mood thereof. That takes genius.” Lehman's other books of criticism include The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets (Doubleday, 1998), which was named a "Book to Remember 1999" by the New York Public Library; The Big Question (1995); The Line Forms Here (1992) and Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man (1991). His study of detective novels, The Perfect Murder (1989), was nominated for an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. A new edition of The Perfect Murder appeared in 2000. In October 2015, he published Sinatra's Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World, which Geoffrey O'Brien in "The New York Review of Books" praised as an "engaging, playful, deeply personal, and elegantly concise tribute." Lehman made his living primarily as a journalist and free-lance writer for fifteen years. His by-line appeared frequently in Newsweek in the 1980s and he has continued writing for general-interest magazines and newspapers, among them The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, American Heritage, the Washington Post, People, The Academy of American Poets, National Public Radio, Salon, Slate, Smithsonian, and Art in America. He has been a contributing editor at The American Scholar, since 2009. From May 2014 until September 2019, he acted as quiz master for the weekly column Next Line, Please, a public poetry-writing contest. The first project was a cr.... Discover the David Lehman popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Lehman books.
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The Best American Poetry 2015
David LehmanThe premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues with an exceptional volume edited by awardwinning novelist and poet Sherman Alexie, now with a new essay by Alexie o...
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The Best American Poetry 2009
David WagonerAwardwinning poet David Wagoner and renowned editor David Lehman present the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry"a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tri...
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New and Selected Poems
David LehmanA major collection of poems from one of our most accomplished poets, the prominent man of letters behind The Best American Poetry series.Drawing from a wealth of material produced ...
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The Best American Poetry 2020
David LehmanThe 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the awardwinning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology ...
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The Best American Poetry 2013
David LehmanBeloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel selects the poems for the 2013 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribun...
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The Best American Poetry 2022
David LehmanMatthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).Since 1988, The Best Ame...
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The Best American Poetry 2012
David Lehman & Mark DotyMark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twentyfifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of h...
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The Best American Poetry 2019
David Lehman & Major JacksonThe 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)now guest edited by Major Jackson, awardwinning poet a...
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The Best American Erotic Poems
David LehmanThere is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate ...
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The Best American Poetry 2011
David Lehman & Kevin YoungThe latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brandname status in the literary world.
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The Best American Poetry 2021
David Lehman & Tracy K. SmithThe 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is “a ‘b...
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The Best American Poetry 2007
David Lehman & Heather McHughThe twentieth edition of The Best American poetry series celebrates the rich and fertile landscape of American poetry. Renowned poet Heather McHugh loves words and the unexpected p...
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The Best American Poetry 2006
Billy Collins"So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests." From Billy Collins's introduction The Best American Poetry series offers a dist...
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The Best of the Best American Poetry
David Lehman & Harold BloomEvery year since 1988 a major poet has selected seventyfive poems for publication in The Best American Poetry. The series has quickly grown in both sales and prestige, as poetry it...
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Best American Poetry 2017
David LehmanEdited by Pulitzer Prizewinner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series tha...
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Poems in the Manner Of
David LehmanPoems in the Manner Of is an illuminating journey through centuries of writers who continue to influence new work today, including that of respected poet and series editor of The B...
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The Best American Poetry 2003
Yusef Komunyakaa"Poetry encourages us to have dialogue through the observed, the felt, and the imaginary," writes editor Yusef Komunyakaa in his thoughtprovoking introduction to The Best American ...
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The Best American Poetry 2005
Paul MuldoonThis eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the last word in poetry today. Paul Muldoon, the distingui...
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The Best American Poetry 2014
David LehmanNational Book Award–winning poet Terrance Hayes selects the poems for the 2014 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago ...
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Best of the Best American Poetry
David LehmanRobert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twentyfive years of The Best American PoetryThis special edition celebrates twentyfive years of...
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Great American Prose Poems
David LehmanA prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "pro...
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The Best American Poetry 2023
David LehmanAwardwinning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).Since its...
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Seven Days in Utopia
David L. CookGolfers and nongolfers alike will be moved by this powerful story of transformation revealing the secrets to success in life beyond success in our game or work.Luke Chisolm is a ta...
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The Best American Poetry 2008
Charles Wright & David LehmanThe Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles W...
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Best American Poetry 2018
David LehmanThe 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet ...
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Best American Poetry 2016
David LehmanThe premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continuesguest edited this year by awardwinning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the pres...
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The Best American Poetry 2010
Amy Gerstler & David LehmanAMY GERSTLER’S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. The...