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June 17, 2014

Next Line, Please Line Eight: It's up to you!

The American Scholar is on line seven of its crowd-sourced sonnet, thanks to readers' clever contributions. David Lehman recognizes runners-up and now includes a winner's circle in his weekly posts. Suggest line eight for Next Line, Please by Monday, June 24 (You must post your line at the American Scholar site.

Here is the sonnet to date:

How like a prison is my cubicle,

And yet how far my mind can freely roam

From gaol to Jerusalem, Hell to home.

Freedom ends or starts with a funeral.

Say what must die inside that I may not

Cast down this die and cross the Rubicon

Thence to the true hell: the heat of Tucson

David Lehman explains his choice and sets up for line 8 here.

-- sdh

Posted by The Best American Poetry on June 17, 2014 at 11:18 AM in Adventures of Lehman, Brainteasers | Permalink

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman