Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. From its origins in picturing private ...
Nov 23, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Another Sunday Another Sunday. It started with hope but the hope was crushed by crankiness. Had planned yesterday to go to the book fair with my sister and my mother. It is ruined. Plans were cancelled. I sat wit...
Nov 22, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLV 〜 Net catch rating Welcome to the 255th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 20, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) A past vision of the future. Domestic utopia? Or sanitised hell?
Nov 19, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria An Update on Life, Failures, and Here-and-There As you can notice, I have successfully abandoned my beautifully crafted, loaded-with-hopes NovPoWriMo project with the help of failure just after one week. Yes, and you know what? I am not even goi...
Nov 18, 2025 from Improve Something Today Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea Making sense of ‘shifting baseline syndrome’ in the world & in the workplace.
Nov 15, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIV 〜 Blue light buyout Welcome to the 253rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 08, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIII 〜 NewsELEC Welcome to the 253rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 07, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 7 — Marginalia Poetry DAY 7. Marginalia PoetryMarginalia are the notes, arrows, grumbles, doodles, and side-whispers readers leave in the edges of a text. In medieval manuscripts, scribes glossed, quibbled, even sketche...
Nov 06, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 6 — Misheard Prayers DAY 6. Misheard PrayersThe term mondegreen was coined by writer Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Harper’s essay. As a child, she misheard the ballad line:“They hae slain the Earl o’ Moray / And laid him on ...
Nov 05, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 5 — Inventory of What Remains DAY 5. Inventory of What RemainsAn inventory poem catalogs, lists, and tallies. Unlike the bookish errata/corrigenda, this one lives in the material world, what’s left behind when someone leaves, w...
Nov 04, 2025 from Improve Something Today A choice to counter culture: notes for November 2025 Ways to practice: refusal, invitation, risk. The new Ram Dass book. Revisiting ‘whole-heartedness.’
Nov 04, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 4 — Duplex of Two Places DAY 4. Duplex of Two PlacesA duplex is a braid of repetition. Each couplet borrows the previous line, shifts it a little, and carries on. Think: echo that returns changed. Today, let two geographie...
Nov 04, 2025 from Silence Calling The Grand Sun On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while
Nov 03, 2025 from BEEW Holy Shame The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf Woolf meant this as a warning. A century later, I can’t help but wonder if those same eyes might be the only thing that co...
Nov 03, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 3 — Corrigenda Crown DAY 3. Corrigenda CrownIn fixed forms, a “crown” often means linked sonnets; we’re adapting the idea: seven linked lists with a repeating line that mutates and returns. A crown of seven short poems...
Nov 03, 2025 from Silence Calling Minimal Materialism Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less than what's required
Nov 02, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 2 — “Errata Sonnet” DAY 2. Errata SonnetWhat are errata? In publishing, an erratum (singular) or errata (list) is a set of post-print corrections bound in or issued separately. We start by mimicking the dry book-histo...
Nov 01, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLII 〜 Dinogourd OS Welcome to the 251st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 01, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 1 — “Palimpsest of Self.” DAY 1. Palimpsest of Self"Palimpsest of Self" uses the concept of a palimpsest—a manuscript with original text partially erased and rewritten over, leaving faint traces of the old—to describe the s...
