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.

Cover to “Catwoman” #69, Adam Hughes, 2007

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Consider the source.

If you give any credence to Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud (or, indeed, ANY claims the man makes) let’s put them in the context of his track record in telling the truth. I’m linking here to The Washington Post’s compiled list of 26,548 false or misleading claims since he took office.

The list was last updated on October 22, so there are more that two full months of steady accusations that have not been subjected to verification.  (Trump’s Twitter feed currently reads like that of a rabid, reality-impaired Don Quixote.) 

Fake news, you say?  Bias?  Take a look at the list.  It’s easy to understand, it’s meticulously detailed and it has links to back itself up.   It … looks pretty real to me.

This is the great truth teller in whom you have placed your trust — the man you’ve chosen to believe instead of The Supreme Court, all the lower courts, election officials, election workers, new reporters and even his own Attorney General.

It makes you think, doesn’t it?



 

“Happy New Year!” Franz von Stuck, 1888

From “Die Gartenlaube” (“The Garden Arbor”).

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Seriously, don’t call.

I think it would be better for both of us if we made a clean break, 2020.

I went ahead and boxed up your things.




(Sea what I did there?)

Cover to “Famous Fantastic Mysteries,” Lawrence Sterne Stevens, July 1951

Popular Publications.

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Suicide Season

Chris Nicholas's avatarThe Renegade Press

‘Ignoring your passion is slow suicide. Never ignore what your heart pumps for.’

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Let’s play a game of Russian Roulette.

You and I are seated at a table in a smoke filled room; there’s an old six shooter positioned perfectly between us with a single round floating in one of its chambers. The heavy aromas of mildew and fear cling to your skin causing you to perspire. We’re alone. There’s no one here to save us; the only entrance to the cell is destined to remain locked until only one of us remains. You’re scared. So am I. Our lives have been reduced to this moment where we’ll play a game of chance to see who survives. Nothing else matters right now. It’s just you and I.

There’s a coin beside the gun. We’ll flip to see who shoots first. I pick it up and use my thumb…

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My poetry, 2020

2020 might have been a bad year, but it was the best year yet for my poetry: My Poetry and Satire, 2020.  (Maybe my muse is societal nigh collapse.)

Anyway, thanks for coming along for the ride.  🙂  

 

Cover to Poul Anderson’s “The Night Face,” artwork by Michael Whelan, 1979

Ace.

Poems-for-All publishes two Mini-books of my haiku!

Well, this is a nice way to end the year; I’m thrilled to see Poems-for-All publish two Mini-books of my haiku!  

The first is entitled Blood Moon & Other Haiku; it also includes “Autumn Leaves Haiku” and “Blue Bloom Haiku.”  The second Mini-book is entitled Sullen Robin & Other Haiku; it also includes “Nihilist Night Haiku,” “Fawning Haiku” and “Weeping Willow Haiku.”)

Poems-for-All is a unique publisher that produces poetry Mini-books and then distributes them for free in variety of public places.  The goal is to make poems “scattered like seeds” so they can reach and surprise new readers – and maybe even engender new lovers of poetry.  All of the Mini-books feature artwork by the publisher, Robert Hansen.  (Poems-for-All also publishes micro-fiction this way from time to time.)

I’m truly honored to have my work selected.  Thanks, Robert!

 

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