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.

Preorders available for the Gathering poetry anthology!

You can pre-order your copy of the Gathering poetry anthology, assembled by Poets Anonymous for release at its book launch on August 22nd in Fairfax, Virginia.  The anthology will include my poem, “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks.”

Details can be found here at the website for Local Gems Press, which is collaborating with Poets Anonymous to produce the book.



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“Nothing” appears in Down in the Dirt Volume #210.

The August 2023 issue of Down in Dirt Magazine just dropped (Volume #210), including my short poem, “Nothing.”  The theme of this issue is “At the Zoo.”

You can purchase a copy of Volume #210 right here at Amazon.

Or, you can read the entire issue online for free.  My piece can be found right here.

Thanks once again to Editor Janet Kuypers for permitting me to showcase my work in such an outstanding literary magazine!



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Cover to “House of Mystery” #203, Russ Heath, 1972

DC Comics.

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Goodbye, Alvey Hall.

A really nice alumna of mine supplied a few more pictures of the destruction of Alvey Hall, after I posted about it yesterday.  (Thanks again, Shelby!)

As I mentioned then, the Mary Washington College dorm was actually torn down in 2021.



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Variety is reporting that actor Paul Reubens died from cancer at age 70.

“The Young King of the Black Isles,” Maxfield Parrish, 1906

Oil on canvas.

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They leveled my old dorm at Mary Washington College.

No, it wasn’t due to the infamy of me having once lived there. I have not yet fully scandalized a building.

This article is from two years ago — but I just saw this today when an alum shared it.

WOW, the memories I have of that place.

Alvey Hall Demolition at University of Mary Washington



French advertisement for “Secret Invasion” (2023)

Marvel Studios.

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“Check yourself before you wreck yourself?”

I’ve got a better one for ya.

EDIT yourself.  Before you Eric yourself.



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