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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Christmas card, circa 1910

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“Disease can never be conquered … by emotion’s willful screaming or faith’s symbolic prayer.”

“Disease can never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion’s willful screaming or faith’s symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.”

—  Sean O’Casey



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NO BANE, NO GAIN

WHEN GOTHAM IS *ASHES,* THEN YOU WILL HAVE MY PERMISSION TO DIE.

Pandemic mask + Misguided pandemic DIY haircut + Pandemic-induced abiding antipathy = comic book villain.

C’mon, we all knew 2020 would create a new one somehow.



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Well, this adds some unhappy perspective …

Shared from The Subversive Lens Facebook page.

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LAST OF THE POEMHICANS.

You’ve witnessed the global pandemic. NOW PREPARE FOR THE GLOBAL PUNKDEMIC.

Because punk never dies.

*Astute readers will deduce that I tried to give myself a haircut, but fared so poorly that I had to adapt it to a mohawk.  And even that turned out a little uneven.

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Poster for “What We Do in the Shadows” (2014)

Paramount Pictures.

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Happy Holidays!

I hope your holiday season is proceeding safely and happily.

Full disclosure — I swiped this picture from a  pal of mine who is far better at decorating than I am.

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Down in the Dirt selects another poem of mine for its newest anthology

I’m so pleased to note here that Down in the Dirt has once again included a poem of mine in a poetry collection. This time out, the magazine published “An Ode to the Paintings of a Newly Discovered Artist” in an anthology it released today, Late Frost. )  The magazine first published this piece in its regular issue last month.

If you’d like to order a copy of the anthology, you can order it from Amazon at this link.

Thanks, as always, to Editor Janet Kuypers for allowing me to share my voice via Down in the Dirt!   



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