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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Source: Quote Library on Facebook

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Cover for Mazzy Star’s “Halah” single, 1995

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Capitol Records.  “Halah” first appeared on Mazzy Star’s 1990 album, She Hangs Brightly.

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Rest easy, Robert Redford.

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Photo credit: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-redford-dies-age-89-star-director/

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Birds circling in unison over Market Square, Roanoke, Virginia

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September 2025 — last night’s dusk.

These cell phone videos don’t really do the scene justice.  They looked soooo cool soaring and circling as a flock.  If you listen closely during the videos, you can hear them chirping.

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Cover to “Blanco y Negro,” Ángel Díaz Huertas, August 22, 1920

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Editorial Catolica.

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The Piker Press publishes my horror tale, “The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie”

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What happens when a jaded publishing heiress comes face to face with Satan himself?

You can witness the confrontation in “The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie,” published today on the front page of The Piker Press:

“The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie”

Thanks yet again to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this rewarding creative community.  🙂

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The Argyle Literary Magazine publishes four of my poems.

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I am absolutely honored today to see The Argyle Literary Magazine publish four of my poems: “Quiet White Dog Short Poem,” “My Mother’s Apartment,” “March Midnight Window” and “Sullen Robin Haiku.”  You can find them at the link below:

Four Poems by Eric Robert Nolan

The Argyle is a superb eclectic online quarterly that strives for “an immersive experience of words and images that feeds the mind, stirs the soul, and disturbs the quiet of blank spaces.”  I am grateful to Founder & Editor-in-Chief David Estringel, MFA for allowing me to join in its literary tradition.

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“L’Adolescence,” Alfons Mucha, 1898

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“Adolescence.”  Color lithograph.  From The Four Ages of Man calendar for Chocolat Masson.