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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 “Action Comics” #894, David Finch & Matt Banning, 2010

DC Comics.

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The Easter Bunny came to my house!

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“Easter,” Augusto Giacometti, 1932

Oil on canvas.

If you celebrate Easter, then I hope you have a lovely holiday!

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It’s true.

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“Spiel der Wellen,” Koloman Moser, 1902

“Play of the Waves.”  Jacquard fabric.

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слава україні!

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Watch it.

Don’t call ME silver-haired; I’m MORALLY GRAY, Baby.

[stalks off ambiguously]



Eric Robert Nolan – “Confession”

I am thrilled today to share some wonderful news — my poem “Confession” was published by The Galway Review in The Republic of Ireland. It is quite an honor for me to see my work selected by such an esteemed publisher; I am grateful indeed to Managing Editor Ndrek Gjini and to the Board of Editors at The Galway Review.

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Eric Robert Nolan’s writing has been featured throughout over 40 print and online publications in the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, Australia and India. His work was also selected for ten anthologies, two chapbooks and six mini-books between 2013 and 2021. He is a past editor for The Bees Are Dead, and was a nominee for the Sundress Publications 2018 Best of the Net Anthology. Every Writer’s Resource named his poem “The Writer” as one of EWR’s Best of 2019.
In 2021, Eric’s reflections on the 9/11 terror attacks were carried by Newsday, The Roanoke Times, and The Bristol Herald Courier, reaching a combined readership of 561,000 people. 


“Confession”

Poetry is
Pornography for the heart
Lust in the lexicon.
It is ever The Nude Girl.

At its best,
It renders white pages into flesh tones and dark downy darts
Between legs.
It renders text
Into sex.
Mouthing the round words curved by assonance
Renders…

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“Death and the Woodman,” Jean de La Fontaine, 1776

Mezzotint.

V0042169 A woodcutter shows Death his pile of wood. Mezzotint.
V0042169 A woodcutter shows Death his pile of wood. Mezzotint. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A woodcutter shows Death his pile of wood. Mezzotint. Published: – Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/