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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Illustration from Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” Gustave Dore, 1857

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Canto 9, Verses 87 – 89.

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Socks to be me right now.

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Oh my god — I just caught myself wearing socks with sandals.
And I was ONCE SO HIP.

[Narrator:] He was never hip.

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Photo of Molbekktjernet, Norway, by Edmund Schilvold, 2009

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I have a dear, wise friend whose eyes can turn any of the varying shades of blue that you see in this photo — depending on the day’s light and her day’s fortunes. 

Someday we’re going to get to see Norway.

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Photo credit: Edmund Schilvold, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Poster for “One Million Years B.C.” (1966)

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Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

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LOOK INWARD, NOLAN.

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When you’re walking around downtown all alone and paranoid at night and some OTHER paranoid dude by himself gives you the side-eye, and you’re like, “There but for the grace of God go waaaaaaiaminute.”

Well played, universe. Well played.

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Spillwords Press features my poem, “school shooter”

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I’m so happy today to see my poem “school shooter” appear over at the pages of The Spillwords Press.  You can find it right here.

Thanks once again to Editor Dagmara K. for allowing me to share my voice in this outstanding online literary magazine.

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Illustration from Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” Johannnes Stradanus, 1587

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Canto 8.

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Peters Creek Winterscape

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Roanoke, Virginia.  (I was going through some old photos on my hard drive when I found these.)

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“A View of the Federal Hall of the City of New York,” George Holland, 1797

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Lithograph.

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EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED.

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This was a present from an old friend from Fredericksburg — a colonial stoneware candleholder. I used to sell these from time to time from the gift shop of The Rising Sun Tavern living history museum there.  (Yes, I was indeed one of those character-interpreting tour guides — I was “the tavernkeeper’s son” and I was better at it than you’d guess.)

This thing is really damned neat.  I love it.  It brings back memories of working summers and weekends as a college student at a job that was a lot more fun than most others.

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