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Sestinas

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Editor’s Note: As of August 14, 2006, we are no longer accepting sestina submissions.

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Whitman’s Sampler: Killing the Father of Free Verse
by Daphne Gottlieb (10/12/2004)

For Breathing and Airplanes
by Amanda Nadelberg (9/20/2004)

Newborn Time
by Jennifer Michael Hecht (9/14/2004)

Cruising a Hungry World
by Scott Hightower (9/8/2004)

Sestina in Translation
by Paul Killebrew (8/30/2004)

Antique Postcards
by Matthew Zapruder and Meredith Walters (8/24/2004)

Playing with Dolls
by David Trinidad (8/13/2004)

Harvard University Health Center Gestation Study
by Jesse Jay Ross (8/10/2004)

A Fake Sestina for Hayden Carruth
by Brian Henry (7/20/2004)

Astronauts Give Up
by Christopher Kennedy (7/2/2004)

Singing Combat
by Jeff Tweedy (5/19/2004)

Lives of the Conquerors
by Patricia Carlin (5/2/2004)

Cowboys
by Sparrow (4/21/2004)

Addressing the Muse
by Jennifer Chapis (4/6/2004)

Sestina of Missed Connections
by Jenny Boully (3/30/2004)

Luck Is the Thing We Are Shit Out Of
by Brendan Lorber (3/18/2004)

Death Metal Number One
by Ernest Hilbert (3/16/2004)

Galloping Personas
by Wanda Phipps (3/10/2004)

She Used a Funnel
by Tony Tost (3/8/2004)

On Delta Flight 659 with Sean Penn
by Denise Duhamel (2/27/2004)

“Be Careful, Cortelyou, How You Tell Her”
by Michael Schiavo (2/26/2004)

Get To School (A Sestina)
by Julia Mayhew - Age 9. (2/26/2004)

David Lehman and Jim Cummins Do Their Part After the World Trade Center Disaster
by James Cummins (2/19/2004)

Tornado Season: April, Ottumwa, Iowa
by Jennifer L. Knox (2/11/2004)

The Ghost of Foghorn Leghorn Speaks of Unrequited Love
by Paul Guest (2/5/2004)

Radio Sestina
by Rick Moody (1/22/2004)

Home Alone
by James Cummins (1/16/2004)

The Rocketman Chronicles Part I: The Misplaced Affection of Rocketman
by Nav Purewal (1/8/2004)

The Temp
by Janice Erlbaum (12/21/2003)

Good Friday
by Susan Gubernat (12/17/2003)

Sestina
by Timothy Liu (12/8/2003)

Pam
by Aaron Belz (12/2/2003)

China’s Leadership, Explained
by Sean Carrie (12/2/2003)

Anna Karenina (Or Like, Most of It)
by Jonah Winter (11/19/2003)

The Bell Telephone Hour Sestina
by David Lehman (11/13/2003)

I Dreamed I Wrote This Sestina In My Maidenform Bra
by Denise Duhamel (11/7/2003)

And The World Should Not Think Your Cherry
by Elizabeth Hildreth (10/29/2003)

The Screen Test of ‘Tippi’ Hedren
by Lisa Beskin (10/22/2003)

Dark Hollow
by Grace Pisano (10/14/2003)

Okay Precious
by Mike Kwolek (10/6/2003)

Recall This
by Michael David Murphy (9/30/2003)

Jim Cummins and David Lehman Defeat the Masked Man
by David Lehman (9/22/2003)

Bodega
by Joelle Hann (9/10/2003)

Ode to a Thin Mint
by Ana Maria Correa (9/5/2003)

The Remarried Again Sestina
by Shanna Compton (9/2/2003)

Carroll Shelby at the Blue Springs, Missouri, Fall Classic Demolition Derby
by Greg Delisle (8/27/2003)

Attn: Human Resources
by Matt Sergi (8/21/2003)

More Men than Bombs
by Jamey Kitchens (8/14/2003)

A Friend in Need
by Scott Underwood (8/4/2003)

The Sad and Pitiful End of Professor F
by Nick Johnson (7/1/2003)

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