a royal digest-in-jest
No Crime in Rhymin’ Aug — Sept 2020
Howdy, fellow Punsters and Rhymologists!
Let me start this episode of our recurring, roughly once-every-two-month digest with an interactive exercise.
Back when I launched this publication, last May, I chose the merry jester — specifically the iconic medieval court jesters we recognise from the canvasses of late-Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic masters — as our “mascot.”
In the sixteen months that we’ve been in business, I’ve cycled through several renditions of the jester, and borrowed our color palette from the warm reds and orange hues of these paintings.
The painting I am currently featuring — see above — is from a 19th / early 20th century artist from my native country. It depicts our legendary 15th century monarch King Matthias Corvinus, receiving the Pope’s delegates from Rome, with a fictional jester for comic and photogenic effect.
Here’s the interactive part, if you’ve read this far — the painter (perhaps according to folklore) hid a self-portrait within this ambitious work. Can you take a guess at which figure is his?
Highlights from these past two months:
- Our most-read, most-clapped poem of this period: ILLUMINATI(on)
- Welcome to our latest first-time contributors: Elle Fredine (#105), Jen Kleinknecht (#106), Kahli Bree Adams (#107), Shalini C (#108), Natassa Penn (#109), David Rudder (#110), Camille Fairbanks (#111), Jane Woodman (#112), D.C. Maloney (#113), Nosh (#114), Acidwriter (#115), Audacious Women (#116), Anna L. Shtorm (#117)
- Congrats to our curated writers: Bebe for Don’t Call Me the P Word — wow, just one this month, that’s a first for us : )
- Our homegrown tradition of unsolicited poetic flash mobs continues, with pile-on poems about The Suburbs, Monsters Under the Bed, Conundrum Cliches, Nightmares …
Here’s everything we’ve published these past two months:
Liam
Elle
James
Jen
Prav
Kahli
Bebe
Mark
Editor Harper
Editor Mary
Krishna
Shalini
Natassa
Ed
David
L M
Kyle
Camille
Jane
D.C.
Nosh
Acidwriter
Audacious Women
Anna
Brian
and Your Editor-in-Chief Joe
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