David Lehman launched The Best American Poetry in 1988 and continues as the annual anthology' s general editor. Educated at Columbia and Cambridge universities, he has written for publications ranging from Newsweek, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal , and the Washington Post to American Heritage, Art in America, Partisan Review , and People . He has taught at Hamilton College, NYU, Bennington, Columbia, and the New School. He edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry and is a contributing editor for The American Scholar .