A sestina by Kathleen Craker Firestone, at the Northern Michigan Journal's website.

Sestina by Iyer

A site that posts submissions of sestinas only. The quality varies.

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.

A description and explanation of the form, with examples and a step-by-step guide to writing one.

By Elizabeth Bishop.

By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Unusual in its use of rhyme.

A brief definition and description from a course at the University of Pennsylvania.

Advice by Damon McLaughlin on how to write a sestina, with an example by Anthony Hecht. Part of a course at the University of Northern Iowa called "The Craft of Poetry."

Description and examples from a course taught by Alberto Rios.

By Scott Reid.

By Rudyard Kipling, in Cockney dialect. Part of the DayPoems Poetry Collection edited by Timothy Bovee.

By Ezra Pound. Perhaps the most famous modern use of the form.

A collection by Nicholas Gordon that can be used free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.

An article by Lawrence Schimel with an example by Joe Haldeman. Part of a series in Writing-World.com.

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.

A webpage devoted to the sestina form, with a large online archive of examples.

By Miller Williams. Part of a larger site called The Wondering Minstrels.

Simplistic description of the form for beginning writers. Part of a larger writing workshop called "Wordweave."