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.

Everyone in the south is sooooooooo nice. I’m like the devil in comparison. Which means logically that I should expect someone will challenge me to a fiddle contest.

Cover to “Justice League of America” #183, Jim Starlin, 1980

DC Comics.

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“Little it cost in the giving.”

Via the Poetry for the Soul Facebook page.

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Blaine the Mono arrives alongside The Tower.

Only Stephen King fans will get that joke.

(This is actually an Amtrak, I believe, arriving alongside The Wells Fargo Tower in Roanoke, VA.)



“Dancers in Pink,” Edgar Degas, circa 1867

Oil on canvas.

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I finally got the dam picture!!

This is … a beaver dam?  I think?  I spotted it in the Roanoke River the other night … there were furballs of some kind down there, and I saw an enormous heron swoop down to join them. I shot video, but it was too dark to share.

Is it a beaver dam?  Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.  I won’t be embarrassed.  You know I am a native New Yorker, and have no acumen for Virginia fauna.  Maybe it’s a muskrat maze or ferret fortress or a nutria superstructure.  You tell me.



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“Die Drei Lebensalter der Frau,” Gustav Klimt, 1905

“The Three Ages of the Woman.”  Oil on canvas.

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Just a patch of woods where I played as a boy.

Until my mother called me home.



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“Flowers in a Vase,” Henri Fantin-Latour, 1873

Oil on canvas.

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Fantin-Latour, Henri; Flowers in a Vase; Manchester Art Gallery; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/flowers-in-a-vase-204958

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