McSweeney’s Internet Tendency‘s Sestinas rocketh.
Here’s the recent additions. Your task: to read each one right now.
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)