S E S T I N A S . - - - - [Editor's Note: As of August 14, 2006, we are no longer accepting sestina submissions. We will be responding to all submissions sent prior to that date.] - - - - O Light, Red Light By Cathy Park Hong (2/6/07) How to Build a Sestina Template in Microsoft Excel By Daniel Ari (2/1/07) Spanish Sestina By Mike McShane (1/23/07) Ticker By Michael Quattrone (1/10/07) I'm Obsessed With My Wife By Nicole Steinberg (12/12/06) Crusaders By Kiki Petrosino (12/5/06) Spaghetti Western Sestina By Richard Peabody (11/27/06) Invitation to the BLSA Dinner: Friday, November 5, 8:00 P.M., College of William and Mary By Ruthanne Doetzer (11/20/06) Sestina (Derailed) By Robert C. Mooney (11/13/06) The Liftings and the Fallings By Jonah Winter (11/6/06) Beyond January By Jenna Cardinale (10/23/06) Fundamentals of Reinsurance By Chad McCracken (10/16/06) The 13th-Hour Session: Discussions on the Rapture Debacle: 11:59 p.m By Andrew Neuendorf (10/9/06) Estuaries, Bequeathed By Jonah Winter (10/3/06) Domestic Sestina By Deirdre O'Connor (9/26/06) The Forest of Barbaric Sestinas By Daniel Borzutzky (9/19/06) How to Live Large: A Debate By Anna Guzon (9/12/06) To My Friend, the Christian Pop Star in Nashville By K. Judith Mowrer (8/15/06) A Wrinkle in Time By Ange Mlinko (8/8/06) Filmskimming By David Koehn (7/24/06) Sestina for the Working Mother By Deborah Garrison (7/17/06) Flown the Parrots of Averse Writing By Heidi Lynn Staples (7/10/06) Sestina to Wheateena By Ned Rust (6/19/06) Encountering Plague, the Virgin, and Saint Sebastian By Stephen Gibson (6/13/06) Hitler Sestina By Peter Davis (6/6/06) Sestina With Clementines, Beer, and Guitar By Christopher Louvet (5/30/06) (with fire): A Twin Peaks Sestina By Chip Livingston (5/15/06) dark fossils enough to sing of dotted orchids By Camille Martin (5/9/06) Reverie By Michael Quattrone (5/3/06) The Seven Signs By Leonard Kress (4/25/06) Two Voices in the Pitch Black By Julie Larios (4/17/06) The One Where the Cake Ignites By Jon Stone (4/17/06) Jewish Food By Joan Larkin (4/13/06) Tsunami By Lewis Turco (4/10/06) 2006 MotoGP Season Preview Sestina By Patrick Masterson (3/13/06) Of Bullshit By Jay Snodgrass (3/6/06) How Duggan Knew By Ravi Shankar (2/27/06) Liner Notes for an Imaginary Playlist By Terrance Hayes (2/20/06) Jennifer Connelly Sestina By Terence Winch (2/13/06) Mother Worries By Shane Allison (2/6/06) Ingrate Sestina (or, The Sestina That Has Rejected All Its Titles Sestina) By Gillian Kiley (1/30/06) Subterranean Gnomesick Blues; or, The Gnome Who Whet My Fleshy Tent By Rachel Shukert (1/26/06) On Salvation By Justin Marks (1/23/06) Reluctant Sestina By Sharon Dolin (1/16/06) Sestina for Shappy, Who Doesn't Get Enough Love Poems By Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (1/10/06) Coconut Octopus By John Hoppenthaler (1/6/06) The Buffy Sestina By Jason Schneiderman (1/2/06) Sestina for a Sister By Laura Cronk (12/19/05) Das Kissenbuch By Joshua Clover (12/13/05) Six Kinds of Noodles By Stephen Burt (12/5/05) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning By David Lehman (11/29/05) Indecent Docent: Sex-Deprived Tina By Carly Sachs (11/21/05) One Long Sentence and a Few Short Ones, or 39 Lines by Frank Gehry: Guggenheim, Bilbao By James Harms (11/14/05) The Graduate Student in Comparative Literature Weighs the Merits of a Career in Pornographic Film By Dafydd Wood (11/9/05) A Sestina Explanation of the Valerie Plame Affair By Michael de Leeuw (10/31/05) Tina Sestina By Doug Lang (10/25/05) Domestic Sestina By Doug Lang (10/17/05) Sestina for the Q Train By Adam Mazmanian (10/10/05) We'll Always Have Paris Hilton By Brian Howe (10/3/05) Rats Live on No Evil Star By Jeffery Conway (9/27/05) Detective Notes By David Trinidad (9/20/05) Francis Bacon Sestina By Lynn Kilpatrick (9/13/05) Ground Rules at Isla Verde Beach By Kevin A. González (9/6/05) WTF Sestina By Meghann Marco (8/30/05) Eazy-E in Hell By Richard D. Allen (8/25/05) Back to the Ground: Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts By Stuart Greenhouse (8/18/05) Memphis, 1976 By Jilly Dybka (8/9/05) A Sour Hour Spent With a Frozen Burrito in a Hot Oven By Arthur Feldman (8/2/05) Pound-Eliot Sestina By Alfred Corn (7/20/05) Ad Campaign During Wartime By Tobias Seamon (7/18/05) Coon Was Here By Chip Livingston (7/12/05) Alienation Sestina By Chris Stroffolino (7/6/05) Multiform By Florence Cassen Mayers (6/29/05) My New Pet Word Is Mozzarella By Amanda Nadelberg (6/22/05) Dear Dirk (Nowitzki) ... Mailbag: Adapted From a Feature on NBA.com, March 2005 By Angela Genusa (6/14/05) The Paul Bunyan Sestina By Alex Cigale (6/9/05) Napoleon Dynastina By Randy Lucas (6/2/05) Occidental Swing By Steven Waling and John Calvert (5/25/05) Business Writing's Silent Killer: Passive Voice By J. Ryan Stradal (5/19/05) Baghdad: The Disappeared Girls By Marilyn Krysl (5/11/05) The Lyricist and His Rock Star By Peter Jay Shippy (5/6/05) Pub Crawl By Edward Barker (4/28/05) Home Alone By James Cummins (4/18/05) Oratio Moderna By Ethan Paquin (4/11/05) Spring Break Sestina By five students in English 307: Advanced Creative Writing—Alison D. DeJesus, Shawn R. Gaines, Amanda M. Kiscoe, Thomas C. Lill, Allyson M. Miller—and Daniel A. Hoyt, an assistant professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio (4/6/05) 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 (3/29/05) The Nesting Doll By Marly Youmans (3/23/05) "Went to a Party, Mom": Adapted From a Poetic E-mail From Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) By Amanda Gersh (3/3/05) Bushestina By Jake Kennedy (2/14/05) Dear Thrasher: Adapted From a Letter to the Editor Printed in Thrasher Skateboarding Magazine, April 2003 By Sonya Huber (1/25/05) Our History By Stephen Burt (1/17/05) The Vision By Lewis Turco (1/12/05) Recurring Dream By Jonah Winter (1/3/05) Arnaut Daniel: The Firm Desire By Garrick Davis (12/22/04) The Jean Paul Sartre Sestina By Joe Green (12/14/04) A Concise History of Leg Amputations By Stephen Gibson (12/8/04) Plain Thoughts By Vicki Weissman (11/29/04) Go, You Redbirds By June Mimson (11/16/04) Sestina for Elton John By Steve Almond (11/9/04) The Sestina of O By Eric Charles Lemay (11/2/04) Literary-Gossip Sestina #1 By Keith O'Neill (10/25/04) Posttraumatic Small-Talk Disorder By Brooks Haxton (10/18/04) Whitman's Sampler: Killing the Father of Free Verse By Daphne Gottlieb (10/12/04) A Mad Libs Sestina By Leah Fasulo (10/6/04) For Breathing and Airplanes By Amanda Nadelberg (9/20/04) Newborn Time By Jennifer Michael Hecht (9/14/04) Cruising a Hungry World By Scott Hightower (9/8/04) Sestina in Translation By Paul Killebrew (8/30/04) Antique Postcards By Matthew Zapruder and Meredith Walters (8/24/04) Playing with Dolls By David Trinidad (8/10/04) Harvard University Health Center Gestation Study By Jesse Jay Ross (7/27/04) A Fake Sestina for Hayden Carruth By Brian Henry (7/20/04) Astronauts Give Up By Christopher Kennedy (7/13/04) Singing Combat By Jeff Tweedy (5/19/04) Lives of the Conquerors By Patricia Carlin (5/3/04) Cowboys By Sparrow (4/21/04) Addressing the Muse By Jennifer Chapis (4/6/04) Sestina of Missed Connections By Jenny Boully (3/30/04) Luck Is the Thing We Are Shit Out Of By Brendan Lorber (3/18/04) Sestina: Death Metal Number One By Ernest Hilbert (3/16/04) Galloping Personas By Wanda Phipps (3/10/04) She Used a Funnel By Tony Tost (3/8/04) On Delta Flight 659 with Sean Penn By Denise Duhamel (2/27/04) "Be Careful, Cortelyou, How You Tell Her" By Michael Schiavo (2/26/04) Get To School (A Sestina) By Julia Mayhew - Age 9 (2/26/04) David Lehman and Jim Cummins Do Their Part After the World Trade Center Disaster By James Cummins (2/19/04) Tornado Season: April, Ottumwa, Iowa By Jennifer L. Knox (2/11/04) The Ghost of Foghorn Leghorn Speaks of Unrequited Love By Paul Guest (2/5/04) Radio Sestina By Rick Moody (1/22/04) Home Alone By James Cummins (1/16/04) The Rocketman Chronicles Part I: The Misplaced Affection of Rocketman By Nav Purewal (1/8/04) The Temp By Janice Erlbaum Good Friday By Susan Gubernat Sestina By Timothy Liu PAM By Aaron Belz (12/3/03) China's Leadership, Explained By Sean Carrie (12/1/03) Anna Karenina (Or Like, Most of It) By Jonah Winter (11/19/03) The Bell Telephone Hour Sestina By David Lehman (11/13/03) I Dreamed I Wrote This Sestina In My Maidenform Bra By Denise Duhamel (11/07/03) And The World Should Not Think Your Cherry By Elizabeth Hildreth (10/30/03) The Screen Test of 'Tippi' Hedren By Lisa Beskin (10/22/03) Dark Hollow By Grace Pisano (10/14/03) Okay Precious By Mike Kwolek (10/06/03) Recall This By Michael David Murphy (9/30/03) Jim Cummins and David Lehman Defeat the Masked Man By David Lehman (9/22/03) Bodega By Joelle Hann (9/10/03) Ode to a Thin Mint By Ana Maria Correa (9/05/03) The Remarried Again Sestina By Shanna Compton (9/02/03) Carroll Shelby at the Blue Springs, Missouri, Fall Classic Demolition Derby By Greg Delisle (8/27/03) Attn: Human Resources By Matt Sergi (8/21/03) More Men than Bombs By Jamey Kitchens (8/14/03) A Friend in Need By Scott Underwood (8/04/03) The Sad and Pitiful End of Professor F By Nick Johnson (7/31/03)

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