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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No yeye elektronnyye pis’ma!!!

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(It’s how you say “But her e-mails!” in Russian.)

Seriously, Comrades.

 

 

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A recommendation: The Blue Mountain Review

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I’ve had the pleasure of getting acquainted recently with The Blue Mountain Review.  The poetry there is simply superb.  I suggest that it makes excellent summer reading — I know I’ll be bringing it along on the annual “River Trip” with the Mary Washington College kids.

Click here and peruse the newly published Issue 7:  The Blue Mountain Review, Issue 7.

For more information about the journal, you can find its Facebook page right here:  The Blue Mountain Review.

 

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A “Naiad,” John William Waterhouse, 1894

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Oil on canvas.  Its alternate title is “Hylas with a Nymph.”

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“Echo and Narcissus,” John William Waterhouse, 1903

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Oil on canvas.

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An excerpt from W. H. Auden’s “Hunting Season”

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Down in the startled valley

Two lovers break apart:

He hears the roaring oven

Of a witch’s heart;

Behind his murmur of her name

She sees a marksman taking aim.

 

(1952)

 

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“Sleep and His Half-Brother, Death,” John William Waterhouse, 1874

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Oil on canvas.

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Just a reminder …

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R.J. Davey’s “Panthalassa” is only 99 cents over at Amazon.  It’s a wonderful small collection of poetry that I cheerfully recommend.

You can find it here:  “Panthalassa” at Amazon.com.

 

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One snail, one jackrabbit, three deer and three baby groundhogs.

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That sounds like a hand for a children’s card game.

I encountered all of these during just a six-minute walk outside my friend’s house yesterday.  The jackrabbit, the deer and one of the baby groundhogs were all too fast for me to get a shot of.

The baby groundhogs were adorable – they’re just nervous little balls of brown fur.  The trick is sneaking up behind them.  (Watch your six, groundhogs.)

 

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