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.
“There is only one way to avoid criticism.”
There is only one way to avoid criticism:
do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
— Aristotle
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
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.
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.
“Fir Forest,” Gustav Klimt, 1901
Down in the Dirt magazine features “The Writer”
I’m honored to share here that Down in the Dirt magazine published my poem “The Writer” today in its May 2020 issue. The issue is entitled Seasons, and you can order a copy of it over at Amazon right here. You can also read the entire magazine for free online right here.
Down in the Dirt is always a terrific venue for featuring fresh and interesting voices in indie lit. Once again, I am grateful to Editor Janet Kuypers for allowing me to see my work published there.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 