Web Directory

» Cledisat 9
   By Arnaut Daniel. A side-by-side translation from the Provencal, with a .midi version of a traditional troubadour melody. From a troubadour site, which claims this as "the first sextain in the history of literature."
   http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/arnaut_daniel/arnaut_daniel_09.php

» Complete 360
   A brief description and history of the sestina form with examples.
   http://complete360.50webs.com/sestina.html

» Island Sestina
   A sestina by Kathleen Craker Firestone, at the Northern Michigan Journal's website.
   http://www.leelanau.com/nmj/views/sestina.html

» McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Sestinas
   A site that posts submissions of sestinas only. The quality varies.
   http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/sestinas/

» My Sestina
   Sestina by S.K. Iyer.
   http://sites.google.com/site/iyerskgeo/mysestina

» Poetic Form: Sestina
   An explanation of the form with a link to Ashberry's "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape" and an explanation of Marie Ponsot's redaction of the form, the "tritina." From the Academy of American Poets.
   http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5792

» Poetry Form - The Sestina.
   A description and explanation of the form, with examples and a step-by-step guide to writing one.
   http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/sestina.htm

» Sestina
   A brief definition and description from a course at the University of Pennsylvania.
   http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sestina.html

» Sestina in the Computer Age
   By Scott Reid.
   http://www.sonic.net/~scotts/sestina.html

» Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
   By Rudyard Kipling, in Cockney dialect. Part of the DayPoems Poetry Collection edited by Timothy Bovee.
   http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1856.html

» Sestina: Altaforte
   By Ezra Pound. Perhaps the most famous modern use of the form.
   http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Pound.altaf.html

» Sestinas for Free
   A collection by Nicholas Gordon that can be used free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.
   http://www.poemsforfree.com/sestinas.html

» Sestinas: Browse, or Build Your Own
   A template for creating sestinas.
   http://dilute.net/sestinas/index.php

» Some Thoughts on Sestinas
   By Lawrence Schimel, with a sestina by Joe Haldeman.
   http://www.writing-world.com/poetry/schimel4.shtml

» The Krenek Sestinas
   By Don Mager. A set of six related sestinas both echoing and about the music and life of Ernst Krenek, a serial composer. Part of Eclectica Magazine v2n2.
   http://www.eclectica.org/v2n2/mager_krenek_intro.html

» The Sestina Page
   A webpage devoted to the sestina form, with a large online archive of examples. Requires the reader to join "Yahoo Groups."
   http://webspace.webring.com/people/js/suzstina/sestina.htm

» The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina
   By Miller Williams. Part of a larger site called The Wondering Minstrels.
   http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/904.html