Writers,
Good work tackling the sestina today. Many students have found this work fun when viewed as a word challenge and there are many inspiring sestinas out there. I’ll list follow-up links here and the Discussion Board link at the end of this post:
Understanding the Sestina Form:
- The How to Write a Sestina Sestina shown in today’s session
- Description of the Sestina on our OpenLab site
- Examples of sestinas on our OpenLab site, including two by Raych Jackson who we saw perform today in class
- Two sestina examples from last semester students in this class
- Remember: the sestina is 39 lines long. There are six stanzas of six lines each ending with a “telethon” and then a three line “envoi.”
The discussion board is here: Session 6: Writing the Sestina
For the discussion board, you only have to write the first two six line stanzas.
If you have questions: jsears@citytech.cuny.edu
