All posts by Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations. Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.

(I am a bit of a flake …)

The heavily accented guy at the bodega cheerfully informs me that “NEW CEREAL SHIPMENT COMES *TOMORROW,* SIR!”

So evidently they know me as “that cereal guy.” Not sure how I feel about that.

[Update — now all my Facebook friends are cracking the various requisite “serial” jokes.  I should have seen that coming.]



Cover to Polish translation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Land of Mist,” 1927

Unknown cover artist.

“A writer never has a vacation.”

“A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.”

― Eugene Ionesco



My poem “Like White Plumeria Petal” selected for anthology of New York poets.

Local Gems Press has selected my poem “Like White Plumeria Petal” for its upcoming Empire Poetry Verse collection.  While I am always grateful to be included in the publisher’s anthologies, I am especially happy to see my work in a volume specifically dedicated to poets from New York.

The launch event for Empire Poetry Verse is scheduled for May 18th in Greenlawn, NY.  The book is also available for preorder here at the Local Gems Press website.

Thanks once again to James P. Wagner for allowing me to be a part of this important creative community!



“On Earth as it is in Heaven,” Alphonse Mucha, 1899

Lithograph.  From Mucha’s Le Pater.

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”

Source: Hell And Earth on Facebook

“We live in a perpetually burning building …”

“View from Ved Stranden in Copenhagen with Two Women Sheltering from the Rain,” Paul Fischer