The LKMNDS Podcast

At Land’s Edge is a sestina verse poem that accentuates a journey across the Atlantic Ocean during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Sestina Verse form is a form that poets either love or hate. To achieve this form, you pick six words, rotate them as the endings of each line in each stanza (without repeating the same position) and then include two word endings per line in your final stanza. That’s a lot to take in, I know. The bottom line is that you’ll have six stanzas, each containing six lines, with each line alternating between the six words you’ve chosen in the beginning. To see this poem in action, visit www.thomaskneeland.com/blog.