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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Poster for “The Monster That Challenged The World” (1957)

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United Artists.

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The Piker Press features “Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen”

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I’m honored today to see my short poem “Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen” appear over at The Piker Press!  You can find it right here.

Thanks, as always, to Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of The Piker Press community!

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Poster for “Marked Woman” (1937)

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Warner Bros.

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VRNNMMM. VRRRRNNMM-NMM-NMM.

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Dammit, I want Covid to be over.

I miss sidling quietly through heavy crowds at the mall making lightsaber sounds.

Seriously, you guys should hear my lightsaber impression. I have a really deep voice and I can do this vvvvvibrating thing with it that sounds straight out of the movies.   Work once stopped for a full afternoon at my first job because my co-workers wanted me to call every department on the phone and do it for them.  I was legend.

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Cover to “Thanos: A God Up There Listening” #3, Dustin Nguyen, 2014

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Marvel Comics.

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(You Jokers will get it.)

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“Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?”

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Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

—  from John Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”

Kneller, Godfrey, 1646-1723; John Dryden (1631-1700), Playwright, Poet Laureate and Critic
Kneller, Godfrey; John Dryden (1631-1700), Playwright, Poet Laureate and Critic; Trinity College, University of Cambridge; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/john-dryden-16311700-playwright-poet-laureate-and-critic-134745
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“A Space Trip With Q”

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Every time I hear about “Q” and his (or her) imbecilic followers, I think about a short story I wrote for an assignment in Mr. Virgilio’s fifth grade class. It was called “A Space Trip With Q,” except the title villain was a reptilian alien who invaded a ship and ate its crew.

His full name was “Quillordovian,” but he kept telling his human quarry that they could call him “Q” because he knew his full name was hard to pronounce. He was pretty droll and chatty for an immense carnivorous lizard.  He kinda wanted to engage, I guess.

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Photo credit: By Enric – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98619564

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Hardcover to “Batman: Year One, The Deluxe Edition,” David Mazzucchelli, 2017

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DC Comics.

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I’m in a fog.

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I swear to you, it’s so thick in Roanoke right now that you can’t see your hand in front of your face.   (I know that is a cliche, sorry, but it’s totally apt).  When I first I looked out my window tonight, I thought there was a blackout.

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