🎭 Culture Aug 31, 2026 · David Lehman

“In Regard to Your Submission”

The American Scholar
American Scholar magazine
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Your captain can almost never tell in advance which of his prompts will kickstart players’ imaginations. Haiku will always attract entries; it has the charm of the minimal. Anagrams bring out the ingenuity in word-game lovers. But every so often I invent a prompt with no idea of whether it will work. That was the case when, on August 3, I asked people to “consider writing either an insincere fan letter or a clever rejection of an unwanted submission or invitation. This can be done either in vers

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