Sestinas
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Editor’s Note: As of August 14, 2006, we are no longer accepting sestina submissions.
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O Light, Red Lightby Cathy Park Hong (2/6/2007)
How to Build a Sestina Template in Microsoft Excel
by Daniel Ari (2/1/2007)
Spanish Sestina
by Mike McShane (1/23/2007)
Ticker
by Michael Quattrone (1/10/2007)
I’m Obsessed With My Wife
by Nicole Steinberg (12/12/2006)
Crusaders
by Kiki Petrosino (12/6/2006)
Spaghetti Western Sestina
by Richard Peabody (11/27/2006)
Invitation to the BLSA Dinner: Friday, November 5, 8:00 P.M., College of William and Mary
by Ruthanne Doetzer (11/20/2006)
Sestina (Derailed)
by Robert C. Mooney (11/13/2006)
The Liftings and the Fallings
by Jonah Winter (11/6/2006)
Beyond January
by Jenna Cardinale (10/23/2006)
Fundamentals of Reinsurance
by Chad McCracken (10/16/2006)
The 13th-Hour Session: Discussions on the Rapture Debacle: 11:59 pm
by Andrew Neuendorf (10/9/2006)
A Domestic Sestina
by Deirdre O'Connor (9/26/2006)
The Forest of Barbaric Sestinas
by Daniel Borzutsky (9/19/2006)
How to Live Large: A Debate
by Anna Guzon (9/12/2006)
To My Friend, the Christian Pop Star in Nashville
by K. Judith Mowrer (8/15/2006)
A Wrinkle in Time
by Ange Mlinko (8/6/2006)
Filmskimming
by David Koehn (7/24/2006)
Sestina for the Working Mother
by Deborah Garrison (7/17/2006)
Flown the Parrots of Averse Writing
by Heidi Lynn Staples (7/10/2006)
Sestina to Wheateena
by Ned Rust (6/19/2006)
Encountering Plague, the Virgin, and Saint Sebastian
by Stephen Gibson (6/13/2006)
Hitler Sestina
by Peter Davis (6/6/2006)
Sestina With Clementines, Beer, and Guitar
by Christopher Louvet (5/30/2006)
(with fire): A Twin Peaks Sestina
by Chip Livingston (5/16/2006)
dark fossils enough to sing of dotted orchids
by Camille Martin (5/9/2006)
Reverie
by Michael Quattrone (5/3/2006)
The Seven Signs
by Leonard Kress (4/25/2006)
Two Voices in the Pitch Black
by Julie Larios (4/17/2006)
The One Where the Cake Ignites
by Jon Stone (4/17/2006)
Jewish Food
by G. Stern (4/13/2006)
Tsunami
by Lewis Turco (4/6/2006)
2006 MotoGP Season Preview Sestina
by Patrick Masterson (3/13/2006)
Of Bullshit
by Jay Snodgrass (3/6/2006)
How Duggan Knew
by Ravi Shankar (2/27/2006)
Liner Notes for an Imaginary Playlist
by Terrance Hayes (2/20/2006)
Jennifer Connelly Sestina
by Terence Winch (2/13/2006)
Mother Worries
by Shane Allison (2/6/2006)
Ingrate Sestina (or, The Sestina That Has Rejected All Its Titles Sestina)
by Gillian Kiley (1/30/2006)
Subterranean Gnomesick Blues; or, The Gnome Who Whet My Fleshy Tent
by Rachel Shukert (1/26/2006)
On Salvation
by Justin Marks (1/23/2006)
Reluctant Sestina
by Sharon Dolin (1/16/2006)
Sestina for Shappy, Who Doesn’t Get Enough Love Poems
by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (1/10/2006)
Coconut Octopus
by John Hoppenthaler (1/8/2006)
The Buffy Sestina
by Jason Schneiderman (1/6/2006)
Sestina for a Sister
by Laura Cronk (12/19/2005)
Das Kissenbuch
by Joshua Clover (12/13/2005)
Six Kinds of Noodles
by Stephen Burt (12/6/2005)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
by David Lehman (11/29/2005)
Indecent Docent: Sex-Deprived Tina
by Carly Sachs (11/21/2005)
One Long Sentence and a Few Short Ones, or 39 Lines by Frank Gehry: Guggenheim, Bilbao
by James Harms (11/14/2005)
The Graduate Student in Comparative Literature Weighs the Merits of a Career in Pornographic Film
by Dafydd Wood (11/6/2005)
A Sestina Explanation of the Valerie Plame Affair
by Michael De Leeuw (10/31/2005)
Tina Sestina
by Doug Lang (10/25/2005)
Domestic Sestina
by Doug Lang (10/17/2005)
Sestina for the Q Train
by Adam Mazmanian (10/9/2005)
We’ll Always Have Paris Hilton
by Brian Howe (10/4/2005)
Rats Live on No Evil Star
by Jeffrey Conway (9/27/2005)
Detective Notes
by David Trinidad (9/20/2005)
Francis Bacon Sestina
by Lynn Kilpatrick (9/13/2005)
Ground Rules at Isla Verde Beach
by Kevin A. González (9/6/2005)
WTF Sestina
by Meghann Marco (8/30/2005)
Eazy-E in Hell
by Richard D. Allen (8/25/2005)
Back to the Ground: Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts
by Stuart Greenhouse (8/18/2005)
Memphis, 1976
by Jilly Sybka (8/3/2005)
A Sour Hour Spent With a Frozen Burrito in a Hot Oven
by Arthur Feldman (7/30/2005)
Pound-Eliot Sestina
by Alfred Corn (7/20/2005)
Ad Campaign During Wartime
by Tobias Seamon (7/18/2005)
Coon Was Here
by Chip Livingston (7/12/2005)
Alienation Sestina
by Chris Stroffolino (7/6/2005)
Multiform
by Florence Cassen Mayers (6/29/2005)
My New Pet Word Is Mozzarella
by Amanda Nadelberg (6/20/2005)
Dear Dirk (Nowitzki) … Mailbag: Adapted From a Feature on NBA.com, March 2005
by Angela Genusa (6/17/2005)
The Paul Bunyan Sestina
by Alex Cigale (6/9/2005)
Occidental Swing
by John Calvert and Steven Waling (5/25/2005)
Business Writing’s Silent Killer: Passive Voice
by J. Ryan Stradal (5/19/2005)
Baghdad: The Disappeared Girls
by Marilyn Krisl (5/11/2005)
The Lyricist and His Rock Star
by Peter Jay Shippy (5/6/2005)
Pub Crawl
by Edward Barker (4/18/2005)
Oratio Moderna
by Ethan Paquin (4/11/2005)
Spring Break Sestina
by Alison D. DeJesus, Allyson M. Miller, Amanda M. Kiscoe, Daniel A. Hoyt, Shawn R. Gaines and Thomas C. Lill (4/6/2005)
Alpaca-Farm-Economy and Tomato-Can-Label Sestina (After Reading The Art Spirit by Robert Henri 17 Years After It Was Assigned in a Freshman Life-Drawing Class)
by David Koehn (3/29/2005)
Napoleon Dynastina
by Randy Lucas (3/27/2005)
The Nesting Doll
by Marly Youmans (3/23/2005)
“Went to a Party, Mom”: Adapted From a Poetic E-mail From Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
by Amanda Gersh (3/3/2005)
Bushestina
by Jake Kennedy (2/14/2005)
Dear Thrasher: Adapted From a Letter to the Editor Printed in Thrasher Skateboarding Magazine, April 2003
by Sonya Huber (1/25/2005)
Our History
by Stephen Burt (1/17/2005)
The Vision
by Lewis Turco (1/12/2005)
Recurring Dream
by Jonah Winter (1/3/2005)
Arnaut Daniel: The Firm Desire
by Garrick Davis (12/22/2004)
The Jean Paul Sartre Sestina
by Joe Green (12/14/2004)
A Concise History of Leg Amputations
by Stephen Gibson (12/8/2004)
Plain Thoughts
by Vicki Weissman (11/29/2004)
Go, You Redbirds
by June Mimson (11/16/2004)
Sestina for Elton John
by Steve Almond (11/9/2004)
The Sestina of O
by Eric Charles Lemay (11/2/2004)
Literary-Gossip Sestina #1
by Keith O'Neill (10/25/2004)
Posttraumatic Small-Talk Disorder
by Brooks Haxton (10/18/2004)