Hey, gang! I’m honored today to see The Piker Press publish another poem of mine — “Turning 41.” I wrote this poem last year!! Thanks as always to Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to share my voice at this wonderful online lit mag.
“Turning 41,” by Eric Robert Nolan
[Update: okay … I wrote this poem many years ago, not last year, because 41 was a while back. Whatever.]
2020 might have been a bad year, but it was the best year yet for my poetry: My Poetry and Satire, 2020. (Maybe my muse is societal nigh collapse.)
Anyway, thanks for coming along for the ride. 🙂
Well, this is a nice way to end the year; I’m thrilled to see Poems-for-All publish two Mini-books of my haiku!
The first is entitled Blood Moon & Other Haiku; it also includes “Autumn Leaves Haiku” and “Blue Bloom Haiku.” The second Mini-book is entitled Sullen Robin & Other Haiku; it also includes “Nihilist Night Haiku,” “Fawning Haiku” and “Weeping Willow Haiku.”)
Poems-for-All is a unique publisher that produces poetry Mini-books and then distributes them for free in variety of public places. The goal is to make poems “scattered like seeds” so they can reach and surprise new readers – and maybe even engender new lovers of poetry. All of the Mini-books feature artwork by the publisher, Robert Hansen. (Poems-for-All also publishes micro-fiction this way from time to time.)
I’m truly honored to have my work selected. Thanks, Robert!
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!
Here’s me reading Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit From St. Nicholas.”
Greetings from this poet during the longest night of the year.
May the gradually lengthening days ahead bring peace and good health to you and yours.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 