The Poet and the Poem
2024-25 Series

Featured David Lehman

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David Lehman's most recent books include The Morning Line, a collection of poems (Pittsburgh, 2021) and One Hundred Autobiographies (Cornell UP, 2019). He edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry and has been the general editor of The Best American Poetry since the annual anthology's inception in 1988. David Lehman is a great fan of Frank Sinatra, the subject of his book Sinatra's Century in 2015. That December, Jack Daniel's released a limited edition of high-priced bourbon packaged with a thumb drive with a Sinatra set from Las Vegas in January 1966; Lehman got to review both the bourbon and the performance for The Wall Street Journal. He has made his living as a freelance writer, and is one of the few poets who subscribes to Barron's, and loves the stories of John O'Hara and Somerset Maugham. He has also written about the composers and lyricists of the American songbook. (A Fine RomanceŠ won ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award in 2010.)

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