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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.
646:, 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."
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665:. The Lila Wallace grant enabled Lehman to organize and host a series of poetry readings and school visitations in collaboration with the Community School of Music and Art in Ithaca, New York. The visiting poets were Mark Strand and Donald Hall (1992), Charles Simic, Jorie Graham, and A. R. Ammons (1993), and Louise Gluck, Kenneth Koch, and John Ashbery (1994).
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1991:"A Poetry-Free Presidency," Salon.com, January 19, 2001.
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809:A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
407:A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
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663:Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award
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434:Lehman's other books of criticism include
2243:Interview: David Lehman with A. R. Ammons
2213:Interview: David Lehman with Jane Hammond
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781:(Doubleday, 1998; Vintage paperback 1979)
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2166:Film adaptation: Lehman's "French Movie"
1341:The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection
776:The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the
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785:The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry
2086:"Archie: A profile of A. R. Ammons".
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229:(1996), all published by Scribner.
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2049:"Peace and War in American Poetry"
1928:Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
1640:"On the Beautiful and the Sublime"
1328:James Merrill: Essays in Criticism
1220:Lehman, David (December 4, 2017).
1181:Poetry Forum: A Play Poem: A Pl'em
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871:The Oxford Book of American Poetry
391:The Oxford Book of American Poetry
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482:The New York Review of Books
415:American Library Association
346:Anthology of American Poetry
338:Contemporary American Poetry
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231:Princeton University Press
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1933:October 12, 2009, at the
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1827:"At This Moment in Taste"
1803:Virginia Quarterly Review
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778:New York School of Poets
733:An alternative to speech
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239:An Alternative to Speech
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2109:April 25, 2009, at the
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1213:It could happen to you
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565:The Library of Congress
502:The Wall Street Journal
440:New York Public Library
126:The Wall Street Journal
70:University of Cambridge
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1792:"Apollinaire's 'Zone'"
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