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.
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“My November Guest,” Robert Frost

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Local Gems Press selects my poem “The Secretary” for The Eagle and The Maple anthology.

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Wonderful news.  🙂  Local Gems Press has selected my poem “The Secretary” to appear in its upcoming anthology, The Eagle and The Maple.  This will be a special collection highlighting the work of American and Canadian writers — I’ll be delighted to see my writing showcased alongside that of our neighbors to the north.

The Eagle and The Maple is available for preorder here at the Local Gems Press website.

Thank you, Maddie McGivney and James P. Wagner, for permitting me yet again to see my work in another quality literary anthology from Local Gems Press.

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“Portrait of Henry VIII” by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1540

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Oil on panel.

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Some very sad news.

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I am so sorry to have to share some terribly sad news here.  I spoke recently with a family member of Matthias Kruger,  the truly wonderful publisher at Newington Blue Press in Germany.  Our friend Matthias has passed away very suddenly due to a heart attack.

If you were lucky enough to know Matthias, then you know how important he was to so many creative people.  He was an easygoing, sublimely good-natured man whose love of literature was cheerfully contagious.  This was best evidenced, of course, by his outstanding work on Newington Blue Press’ BUK100 series — a beautiful series of elegant chapbooks commemorating the legacy of Charles Bukowski.

If you are anything like me, you hope that Mathias is somewhere tonight kicking back and having a beer with ol’ Buk himself — who is doubtlessly pleased by the way Matthias encouraged countless others to enjoy the writer’s work.

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Cooch Behar Magazine publishes “Hardy Orchids Haiku” in its Orchid-themed anthology.

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I am so happy to share here that Cooch Behar Magazine in India has published my “Hardy Orchids Haiku” in its new Orchid-themed anthology.  You can purchase it at Amazon right here.

As always, thanks to Editor Sourav Sarkar for allowing me to see my work showcased by this outstanding indie lit publisher!

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Illustration of a female black woodpecker from “Dutch Birds,” Jan Christiaan Sepp and family, 1770

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Cover to Joan Aiken’s “The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase,” artwork by Corinne Reid, 2025

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Penguin Random House (United Kingdom Branch).

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“Thanks to the human heart by which we live …”

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Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
— closing lines, William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”

Photo credit: Christine Hasman / Dove Cottage.  “Dove Cottage. This tiny cottage is a magnet for tourists from all over the world, as it was once the home of the poet William Wordsworth and is now a museum. It is actually situated slightly outside the village of Grasmere, on the White Moss road at Town End.”