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.

Poetry and commentary, 2024

Just FYI, if you’d like to keep track of my mad scribblings, I started a new page here at the blog for 2024 poetry and commentary.

You can find it right here.



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Cover to “House of Secrets” #131, Luis Dominguez, 1975

DC Comics.

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“These are what we stay alive for.”

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Source: the “Cinema Lovers” Facebook page

Impspired Volume 13 features three of my poems.

Impspired in the United Kingdom released its 13th volume today, featuring three of my poems: “At the Coffee Shop,” “Autumn Girl” and “A Poet’s Short Note to His Muse.”  (These pieces were previously published online in Impspired Issue 26.)

You can purchase a paperback copy of Impspired Volume Thirteen right here over at Amazon.

As always, I am grateful to Editor Steve Cawte for allowing me to see my work published by such an outstanding literary magazine!



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“A Wintry Walk,” Lowell Birge Harrison

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I realize that I’m probably spitting into the wind saying this, but …

I do not need “digital marketing.”  I have never needed “digital marketing” from someone who sends me unsolicited offers about this nebulous service.

Please stop sending me messages or friend requests about this.



Cover to “Cyberantics,” Rick Geary, 1992

Dark Horse Comics.

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(Who are you, by the way? And when do I get my shoulder-cannon?)

So do our eyes just get progressively worse as we get older? Does the world just get blurrier and blurrier until it becomes only shapes and colors, like a lame-ass version of Predator-vision?

[clicks feebly in Yautja]



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