I am so happy to share here that Cooch Behar Magazine in India has published my “Hardy Orchids Haiku” in its new Orchid-themed anthology. You can purchase it at Amazon right here.
As always, thanks to Editor Sourav Sarkar for allowing me to see my work showcased by this outstanding indie lit publisher!
Circa 1992. With College Girlfriend, no less.
The young lady pictured was always a sublimely cool individual, so I will spare her the ignominy of naming her here. (We protect the innocent at this blog.)
Thanks to MWC Alum Rick Slagle for the photo!
I am delighted today to learn that my poetry has been published in three new anthologies by Cooch Behar Magazine in India.
My poem “she” appeared in the new Illusion anthology, my poem “March Midnight Window” appeared in the Longing anthology, and my poem “The Mountain At Summer, Seen From Passing Car” appeared in the Joy anthology. You can purchase the respective volumes here, here and here over at Amazon.
Thanks, as always, to Editor Sourav Sarkar for allowing me to see my work appear in such outstanding publications!
Then check out Local Gems Press’ new Halloween-themed anthology — Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025. You can order it from Amazon at the link below:
(If you do purchase the book, I hope that you’ll peruse my poem about ghosts around Roanoke, “This Windy Morning.”)
I am honored today to see American Poet publish three of my poems: “Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen,” “Like White Plumeria Petal” and “Hardy Orchids Haiku.”
Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Faiyaj Islam Fahim, for allowing me to see my work at this outstanding website devoted to American Poets.
The poems were “At the Coffee Shop,” “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves” and “Fawning Haiku.” You can find them right here.
Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Faiyaj Islam Fahim, for featuring my work at this outstanding literary resource for Europe and beyond.
I’m thrilled to share here that a poem of mine will be included in this year’s installment of Local Gems Press’ annual Halloween anthology, Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025.
The poem is “This Windy Morning,” and I am grateful to Maddie McGivney and Bards President James P. Wagner for letting me join the holiday fun. 🙂
You can preorder a copy of the book, if you wish, right here at the Local Gems Press website.
September 11, 2001.
We were a different country then: wounded, but undivided; scarred, but undeterred; enraged, but not at one another. The America that rallied and unified in the wake of the terror attacks seems as vanished now as the Towers themselves.
We were a nation of neighbors, as though the dust thrust up from a burning New York City had cleared to reveal an even greater Republic. We huddled together under the smoke blowing up from the charnel pit, then reached to lift one another to higher ground. We bolstered one another with whatever words we could find, in the interminable spaces after our dead had fallen silent, after the soot in the emptied streets had muted even our own footfalls.
We rose up as one to retaliate — and struck out across the world with a single fist. We were more than a superpower, more than an aggrieved people. We were these United States.
I want to believe that we can be that country — those people — again.
That is why today, fully two decades later, I will picture who we were. And I will tell myself, never forget.
— Eric Robert Nolan, originally printed in Newsday, September 11, 2021
Care to lay hands on some poetry for the cooler days ahead? Two new anthologies from Local Gems Press are now available at Amazon.
Gathering 2025 can be found here. (If you happen to order a copy, please check out my poem, “As Silver as the Stars You Tried to Rival.”)
Bards Poetica can be found right here. (If you order a copy of this book, I hope you’ll enjoy my poem, “Confession.”)
Have a great weekend! 🙂
I’m honored to share here that Newington Blue Press in Germany will publish my poem “Confession,” along with at least one of my photos, in the upcoming BUK100 Issue #4 — the Forever Young Edition.
Preorder information can be found here.
Thanks once again to Publishing Editor Matthias Kruger for allowing me to showcase my work in this outstanding chapbook series dedicated to Charles Bukowski!
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 