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.

“Snow Toward Evening” by Melville Cane

Suddenly the sky turned gray,
The day,
Which had been bitter and chill,
Grew soft and still.
Quietly
From some invisible blossoming tree
Millions of petals cool and white
Drifted and blew
Lifted and flew,
Fell with the falling night.

So my New Year’s resolution is less Facebooking and more writing. If you people see me on there too much, I want you to spank me.

Some of you more than others.

A New Year’s greeting.

They say that 13 is an unlucky number, but 2013 brought beautiful things and good people into my life.

This past year allowed me to find finally my voice, thanks largely to the encouragement of school pals and fellow writers. I’ve reunited with old friends and made valuable new ones, finding like minds and kindred spirits, hailing from both out of the past and the ever arriving present.

To all of you — in the green hills of Virginia, in the wide, dry places of the American west, in chilly Canada and at the pubs in distant Britain, I wish you the happiest, healthiest and brightest of New Years.

Dear Haiku Journal, 
Stop e-mailing me after
Rejecting my poem!

Being a writer is validating. I get to meet people who are even more alcoholic than I am. 

😀

From a friend …

I am in favor of this.

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Waddya know.

I made the “Class Notes” section of the Mary Washington College Magazine,

Evidently I will never live down the legend of “The Man In The Green Jacket!”  (Long story.)

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This was posted by my college friend G last night.

The irony?

Writers like me usually can’t afford to eat this well!

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For my BritBuds!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7OJeyhq2Q