25 Facts About David Lehman

David Lehman was born on June 11,1948 and is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and literary critic, and the founder and series editor for The Best American Poetry.

David Lehman 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.

David Lehman taught and was the Poetry Coordinator at The New School in New York City until May 2018.

David Lehman attended Stuyvesant High School and Columbia University, and Cambridge University in England on a Kellett Fellowship.

David Lehman's poem "The Presidential Years" appeared in The Paris Review No 43 while he was a Columbia undergraduate.

David Lehman taught at Brooklyn College, where he shared an office with John Ashbery, for a year.

David Lehman then left academe and became a freelance writer.

David Lehman 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.

David Lehman became a contributing editor of Columbia College Today in 1982 and of Partisan Review in 1986.

David Lehman collaborated with James Cummins on a book of sestinas, Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man, and with Judith Hall on a book of poems and collages, Poetry Forum.

David 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.

David Lehman's work has been translated into 16 languages overall, including Spanish, French, German, Danish, Russian, Polish, Korean and Japanese.

David Lehman is the series editor of The Best American Poetry.

Further, David Lehman has edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry.

David Lehman made his living primarily as a journalist and free-lance writer for fifteen years.

David Lehman's 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.

David Lehman has been a contributing editor at The American Scholar, since 2009.

David Lehman now writes a monthly column on movies for "The American Scholar".

In 2013, David Lehman wrote the introduction to The Collected Poems of Joseph Ceravolo.

In 1994 David Lehman succeeded Donald Hall as the general editor of the University of Michigan Press's Poets on Poetry series, a position he held for twelve years.

David Lehman taught in the graduate writing program of the New School in New York City since the program's inception in 1996 and served as poetry coordinator from 2003 to 2018.

David Lehman has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the NEA, and received an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award.

The Lila Wallace grant enabled David 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.

David Lehman has lectured widely in the United States and abroad.