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.

American Poet publishes three of my poems.

I am honored today to see American Poet publish three of my poems: “Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen,” “Like White Plumeria Petal” and “Hardy Orchids Haiku.”

You can find them right here.

Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Faiyaj Islam Fahim, for allowing me to see my work at this outstanding website devoted to American Poets.



Illustration for Homer’s “The Odyssey,” François-Louis Schmied, 1928

Compagnie des bibliophiles de l’Automobile-Club de France.

“The role of a writer …”

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

— Anais Nin



“Ghosts on a Tree,” Franz Sedlacek, 1933

Three of my poems were published today over at European Poetry.

The poems were “At the Coffee Shop,” “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves” and “Fawning Haiku.”  You can find them right here.

Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Faiyaj Islam Fahim, for featuring my work at this outstanding literary resource for Europe and beyond.



Artwork for Antent’s “Hope to See You Again,” 2023

“It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.”

—  Publilius Syrus



Photo image: Bilal Detailz, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

My people are the coolest.

Look at the lovely presents my fellow author friend gave me for The Feast of Tabernacles.

The candle actually smells like lavender.



Cover to “Fantastic Four” #45, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott & Stan Goldberg, 1965

Marvel Comics.

(It took me a minute to realize that the misspellings here were intentional.) :-D