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Sestina Syllabus Craft of Poetry Home Sestina tends to have a scary ring to it, and I imagine many fall back with a look of fright at the mere sound of the word. We all have, it's all right. A little pactice and the sestina can be a very rewarding exercise for any poet looking for a challenge. The sestina is yet another fun, French form, and it is divided into 6 sestets (six line stanzas) and 1 ...

Inspired by South Fox Island* There's something magical about an island. No other meets the feeling, quite serene, of walking on a quiet beach of white sand and skipping stones across the liquid blue. The solitude is seen in wandering footprints and heard in whispering leaves of nearby trees. The kingbird and the bluebird perched in song trees bring music to the silence of the island, and ...

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Scott Reid Sestina in the Computer Age A friend said I didn't need to know the UNIX operating system to locate Czeslaw Milosz reading his poetry on the World Wide Web, so I turned on Netscape and began to surf the Internet. My girlfriend thought I was a dweeb, but I told her, Honey, this really isn't a hoax. She thought it was a hoax anyway as I sat in a dim room staring at a UNIX prompt on my ...