YEAR OF THE SESTINA

Main contest submissions open now!

Please send us one sestina by December 1, 2025.

Cash prize 100$ for top three poets.

Top poet can send a narration of their sestina in to run over a Poetry Music Video consisting of landscape shots and original electronic music.

Honoré de Balzac, patron saint of all caffeinated writers and our obliteration.

metta to Filo gèn' of "French WIkipedia" for publishing this image under a creative commons license.

[Fundamental wrongview is the belief that you and I are truly different. Actually, we are like pizza and pasta - shades of the same sugar. In the ultimate reality, we all want to be sugar, and thus delicious. There is no higher sauce than this, nor anything else to let go of]

Assuage von blurb the american, aus "smoking" Danvers, MAssawhosits, offiziell B.H.L.M "Flash-reflectionist" und hokku ("foto-voice") Schriftsteller. Sunday, April 5 P.M, 11:03 E.S.T
Free Resources:

William Carlos Williams:

Spring and All,

and

Layli Long Soldier,

Irony,

on Poets.org.
A resource Fish uses herself:
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Fish’s professional teaching, tutoring, and writing philosophy:

Let’s actually write the fucking book.

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actual bombings (some of us)

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