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.

“That’s where you live. In an explosion.”

“Athletics,” Bulletin of the Normal School for Women, Fredericksburg, Virginia, April, 1920

What would later become Mary Washington College.

Three of my poems were included in Issue 30 of the Poetry Hall bilingual journal.

I’m so happy to share here tonight that the Poetry Hall quarterly bilingual journal again published three of my poems today in Issue 30.  The poems selected were “Milky Way Haiku” (“银河俳句”), “Demurring Haiku” (“谦拒俳句”) and “Blood-Moon Haiku” (“血月俳句”).   As always, they appear in the journal in both English and Chinese.

You can find Issue 30 right here at Amazon.

Thank you, once again, to Editor-in-Chief Xu Yingcai and translator Zhang Ning for allowing me to see my writing appear in this distinguished international literary journal!



The Picture of Dorian Going Gray.

Poster for “Welcome to Derry” Season 1, 2025

HBO.

“Lena 4,” Alexander Annenkov, 2009

Moscow.

“Pro Deo, Domo, Patria.”

“For God, Home, Country.”



“A Moonlit Lane,” John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1874

Oil on board.

“A crescent still abides.”

Emily Dickinson.