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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Cover to Amazing Stories, Harold W. McCauley, March 1940

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Ziff-Davis Publishing

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David Tennant reads William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”

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“If An A-Bomb Falls,” United States Government, 1951

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This was an illustration from a government-issue comic book, tasked ambitiously with educating the public about how best to survive a nuclear attack.  I believe that the name of the artist here is probably lost to history, though I saw one Internet commentator speculate that it looked like Jack Sparling’s work.

You can find the entire comic at Ethan Persoff’s excellent website here.

 

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The news and images coming out of Puerto Rico are just heartbreaking.

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Godspeed to her and her people.

 

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Johnny Bee Goode

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Today is the first day of Autumn.  Why not stop over at The Bees Are Dead, and mark the encroaching cold with a few dark futuristic visions?

There you’ll find Gary Glauber’s “After the Deluge”, which is a sanguine twist on the usual narrative of the post-apocalyptic poem.  There is also some truly arresting photography — Paul Gerrard’s “Monochromatic Beginnings” is shudder-inducing and delightfully monstrous, and Kathryn Nee’s ““Windows into the End” is a haunting exhibition of abandonment art.

 

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Antonio Vivaldi’s “Autumn,” from “The Four Seasons”

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Illustration of a wild boar, by Anton Strassgschwandtner, circa 1860

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“An unarmed huntsman, threatened by a wild boar, takes refuge in a tree.”  Colored lithograph.

 

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Al Pueblo de México …

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El Pueblo de los Estados Unidos le desea paz, seguridad y fortaleza durante esta crisis.

 

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Teotitlán de Valle. Tapestry shop.  Photo credit: By Wolfgang Sauber (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

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(Although this time he’d have a legit deferment.)

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Please, Mr. President, don’t start any unnecessary wars.

The last thing America needs is another Vietnambia.

#poetburn

 

 

 

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Cover to “Weird Tales,” W. H. Silvey, May 1954

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“Song in the Thicket” by Manly Banister.  Cover art by W. H. Silvey.

Yes, “Manly Banister” is indeed the author’s name.  He appears to have had several, so it’s a good bet this was a nom de plume.  (For comparison, his other names include “Gregg Powers” and, curiously, “Val Seanne.”)

Google him.  He … actually published a hell of a lot between 1942 and 1980.

 

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