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	Poetic Form: Sestina - http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5792 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.
	McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Sestinas - http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/sestinas/ A site that posts submissions of sestinas only. The quality varies.
	Poetry Form - The Sestina. - http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/sestina.htm A description and explanation of the form, with examples and a step-by-step guide to writing one.
	http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sestina.html - http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sestina.html A brief definition and description from a course at the University of Pennsylvania.
	Sestina: Altaforte - http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Pound.altaf.html By Ezra Pound. Perhaps the most famous modern use of the form.

	The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina - http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/904.html By Miller Williams. Part of a larger site called The Wondering Minstrels.
	http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/03/ahead/sestina.html - http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/03/ahead/sestina.html By Elizabeth Bishop.
	http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page9.html - http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page9.html Description and examples from a course taught by Alberto Rios.
	The Krenek Sestinas - http://www.eclectica.org/v2n2/mager_krenek_intro.html 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.
	Moo World Order: Sestina Creator - http://www.mooworldorder.com/rubbish/sestinaCreator.asp Fill in the end words of the first six-line stanza and the site will list the order of the words in the rest of the poem.

	http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2101.html - http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2101.html By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Unusual in its use of rhyme.
	Sestinas: Browse, or Build Your Own - http://dilute.net/sestinas/index.php A template for creating sestinas.
	Sestina of the Tramp-Royal - http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1856.html By Rudyard Kipling, in Cockney dialect. Part of the DayPoems Poetry Collection edited by Timothy Bovee.
	Sestinas for Free - http://www.poemsforfree.com/sestinas.html A collection by Nicholas Gordon that can be used free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.
	Sestina in the Computer Age - http://www.sonic.net/~scotts/sestina.html By Scott Reid.

	Island Sestina - http://www.leelanau.com/nmj/views/sestina.html A sestina by Kathleen Craker Firestone, at the Northern Michigan Journal's website.
	Complete 360 - http://complete360.50webs.com/sestina.html A brief description and history of the sestina form with examples.
	My Sestina - http://iyersk.geo.googlepages.com/mysestina Sestina by S.K. Iyer.

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