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.

Cover to “Mister Miracle” #18, Bob Lerose, Bob Dvorak, Albert DeGuzman, Joe Phillips, 1990

DC Comics.

Uhhh … thank you, Mistress, may I have another?

I submitted a poem to a new journal; I got a somewhat terse rejection letter.  Then, just to underscore the point, they sent me the same rejection letter a day later.  Sort of an encore-type thing.

Then, finally, I get an e-mail welcoming me to “The Sub Club” asking me if I “Want Attention.”  I swear I am not making this up.

Not even gonna touch that one.



Cover to “Fury of Firestorm” #1, Pat Broderick & Dick Giordano, 1982

DC Comics.

Exited the post office, promptly walked in the wrong direction.

I got halfway down the wrong street before the storefronts finally clued me in.  (“Wow, was this furniture store always here?”  “They put in a bakery?!  Overnight?!  Ohhhhhh … wait.”)



“What distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech.”

Poster for “Until the End of the World” (1991)

Warner Bros.

Apocalypse Nolan.

Yes, this is normal for me.  I just function far better in low light.  (And, trust me, I need all the help I can get.)

Think of me as a goofier Walt Kurtz.   And a nyctophile.  Melanophile?  The difference is mostly lost on me.



The Eagle and the Maple is now available at Amazon.

The Eagle and the Maple: A United States & Canadian Poetry Anthology is now available for purchase over at Amazon.  You can find it right here.

As I’ve shared here before, this Local Gems Press anthology devoted to poets from here at home and from our collectively far saner neighbors to the north.  (And it contains my poem, “The Secretary.”)



Cover to “Final Crisis” #4, JG Jones, 2008

DC Comics.

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