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.

“Fate,” Alfons Mucha, 1920

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I’m sitting down with my copy of Illumen.

The Spring 2020 Issue is great read.  I am currently enjoying the work of featured poet Francis W. Alexander.

If you can lay hands on a copy, I highly recommend K.S. Hardy’s short poem “Night.”  It’s perfect.

 

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Cover to “La Plume” #192, Alfons Mucha, 1897

Lithograph.

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“There is only one way to avoid criticism.”

There is only one way to avoid criticism:
do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

— Aristotle

 

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Public access TV has gotten weird.

I’m watching an inarticulate, obviously unprepared middle school student stumble his way through … an oral report … at a science fair? About … biology?

Kid sounds like there’s something wrong with him.

OH WAIT, IT’S THE PRESIDENT ON FOX NEWS TALKING ABOUT THE PANDEMIC. My bad.

 

 

Cover of “The Inland Printer” magazine, Will H. Bradley, July 1894

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Groundhog races outside my window!

I want to take video, but you can’t just film a neighbor’s house and yard; that’s the kind of thing that gets the cops called.

One of them just stopped and eyeballed me — apparently they don’t like spectators?

Oh! One bit the other, and it kinda screamed. That’s a foul. Or … a moving violation? Penalty? Whatever you sportos call it.

Update — the neighbors are probably wondering why I am smiling and waving at the space beneath their car.  Hell, the groundhogs are probably wondering.  Little fat dude’s giving me a look like, “Yeah?  Do we know you?”

 

 

“Princess Hyacinth,” Alfons Mucha, 1911

Color lithograph.

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Illumen magazine features “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks” in its Spring 2020 issue

I got some more great news today — Illumen magazine released its Spring 2020 issue, featuring my poem “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks.”  This edition of the magazine boasts a cover by artist Sandy DeLuca, and names Francis W. Alexander as its Featured Poet.  You can order a copy from Hiraeth Books right here.

Thanks again to Illumen Editor in Chief Tyree Campbell for accepting my poem for this outstanding quarterly digest of speculative poetry.

 

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“Fir Forest,” Gustav Klimt, 1901

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