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.

“Happy Halloween 2015!” photo by Rob Swystun

Photo credit: Rob Swystun from Winnipeg, Canada, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Cooch Behar Magazine publishes my poem “Industrial Revolution” in its Apology Anthology.

I am honored to share here that Cooch Behar Magazine has included my poem “Industrial Revolution” in its new Apology Anthology.  You can find it right here.

Thank you, Editor Sourav Sarkar, for allowing me to see my writing featured again by this excellent publisher in India.



Throwback Thursday: this 1978 ad for “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”

CBS.

I am linking here to Bionic Disco on Youtube.



Illustration for Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” by Majeska, 1930

Horace Liveright, New York, NY.

Poster for Andrew Lang’s “Dreams and Ghosts,” 1897

I believe the name of the artist is lost to history — would our only clue be the initials … “RX” in the bottom right corner?

Cooch Behar Magazine publishes my work in its AIM anthology.

I am so honored that Cooch Behar Magazine has included my work in its new AIM Anthology, in celebration of World Common Literature Day on October 24th.  You can find it right here on Amazon.

Thank you, Editor Sourav Sarkar, for allowing me to see my writing published by this excellent independent literature publication in India.



Mark Woodward wins Spillwords Press September 2025 Publication of the Month.

I hope you will join me in congratulating Mark Woodward for winning the Spillwords Press September 2025 Publication of the Month Award.  Mr. Woodward won for his poem, “Crossed Wires.”

(And for those of you who voted for the short story of mine that was nominated, I do thank you.)  🙂



Poster for “The Inhumans” Season 1 (2017)

ABC.

Note the display of “Grendel” comics in the background.

We nerd out hard around this house.