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.

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“Burnt Village,” Albert Edelfelt, 1879

February 24, 2022 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

Oil on canvas.

Poltettu_kylä

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“All the uncaring /Intricate rented world begins to rouse.”

February 22, 2022 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
Have always known, know that we can’t escape,
Yet can’t accept. One side will have to go.
Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

— from Philip Larkin’s “Aubade”

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Photo credit: By Keith D at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4133665

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It’s 2/22/2022.

February 22, 2022 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

If you know me at all, then you know I have to post a picture of Harvey Dent (“Two-Face”) on my blog and social media.

Harveydent

Cover to “Batman: Two-Face,” Brian Stelfreeze, 1995. DC Comics.

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Excerpt from W. H. Auden’s “Invocation to Ariel”

February 21, 2022 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

(a portion of “The Sea and the Mirror”)

Sing, Ariel, sing,
Sweetly, dangerously,
Out of the sour
And shiftless water,
Lucidly out
Of the dozing tree,
Entrancing, rebuking
The raging heart
With a smoother song
Than this rough world,
Unfeeling God.

O brilliantly, lightly,
Of separation,
Of bodies and death,
Unanxious one, sing …

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“Woman by the Surf,” Anne Brigman

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BE A BANNED-AID!

Image February 19, 2022 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

banned books

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“The Hostage,” Edmund Blair Leighton, 1912

February 19, 2022 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

Oil on canvas.

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“Quiet White Dog Short Poem,” by Eric Robert Nolan

February 18, 2022 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

A tottering nocturnal poppy,
its tail is a plume that moves between tombstones —
as white as them,
as white as the moon ,
and as noiseless as either,
the night’s silent, snowy, swaying bloom —
quiet white dog in a mountain graveyard.

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