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.

THIS TOWN CAN PARTY LIKE RAGNAROK.

Nothing stops these Southerners on the Fourth of July.  We had intermittent thunderstorms roll through and around Roanoke early this evening.  But when faced with thunder and lightning, residents just kinda … shot back.

If you crested the right hill here, you could see fireworks displays at every corner of the compass — blasting back at the sporadic storms like a hubris-fueled war with heaven.  Seeing lightning streak across the sky with fireworks exploding in front of it is really, really damn cool.  (Regrettably, I did not get a shot of that.)

 

 

“Delaware Regiment at the Battle of Long Island, 1776” Domenick D’Andrea, 2007

Oil on canvas.

There’s some confusion about the date for this painting; many websites list it as being completed in 1776 — maybe because that date is included in its title.  But Domenick D’Andrea is a contemporary artist living in Connecticut; I believe he painted the piece in 2007.

The Battle of Long Island

Happy Birthday, America.

Have fun, be safe, don’t drink and drive, and don’t accept election help from foreign adversaries.

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By Anita Mishra – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41619517

I knew this pun was bad, but I went Fourth with it anyway.

A college friend actually invited me to the Fourth of July festivities in Washington tomorrow.

But I said no tanks.

 

 

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

— Ray Bradbury

 

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Cover to “The Ladies’ Home Journal,” October 1858

LHJ Publishing.

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“hens staring upward” selected for “The Flickering Light” poetry collection

I’m quite happy to share here that my poem “hens staring upward” was selected by Down in the Dirt magazine for its latest poetry collection, The Flickering LightI was honored to have this poem originally published by Down in the Dirt in its April issue; seeing it subsequently selected for The Flickering Light today was a nice surprise!

If you’d like to order a copy of the anthology, you can find it right here over at Amazon.

Thank you, Editor Janet Kuypers, for allowing me to join the creative community of Down in the Dirt!

 

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“Fawning Haiku,” by Eric Robert Nolan

We fawn over fawns
until their clipping gallop
cadences away.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2019

 

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Photo credit: By Mwanner at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=245464

“Die Ährenleserinnen,” Eugene Burnand, late 19th Century

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“Nihilist Night Haiku,” by Eric Robert Nolan

This nihilist night,
the sky is only void and
burning tombstone stars.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2019

 

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Photo credit: Egres73 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D