Tag Archives: Eric Robert Nolan

F**K broccoli.

Goddam communist vegetable.  I didn’t want you for dinner anyway.

Or, more properly, f*** whoever wrote these stupid instructions on the back of the package.  A half a cup of water will obviously NOT suffice to cook half a giganto-sized package of frozen broccoli.  And I didn’t read it wrong!  I’m wearing my glasses!

This maddening confusion does not accompany cheeseburgers!  And I always know the recipe is right because I have my own recipes!!!

[Update — hold up!  Turns out I was entirely too hasty in my judgement of this broccoli!  A half a cup of water is indeed enough, given how it … seeps upward in the pot.  (Steams?)  I dunno, it’s kitchen physics.  And I’m not really an expert on kitchen stuff.]



“The Beach House, Early Spring” published in cc&d magazine’s 32nd Anniversary Edition.

I am thrilled to share here that cc&d magazine today published my love poem, “The Beach House, Early Spring,” in its 32nd Anniversary Edition!

The easiest way to view the poem is to pull up the online magazine at this link and then click on the poem’s title.  Mine is the sixth one down in the table of contents.


You can also purchase a copy of the Anniversary Edition from Amazon right here.

Thank you, Editor Janet Kuypers, for allowing me to see my work showcased again in the pages of cc&d magazine!


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Indie Writers’ Digest features my poetry.

Indie Writers’ Digest in the United Kingdom recently invited me to submit a few of my poems, along with some comments about my journey as a poet.

I really am honored.  This is an outstanding magazine devoted specifically to independent creatives, and Editor and Publisher Bryony Petersen is a true pleasure to work with.

You can find the May 20th Issue right here.  My composition about my writing career can be found on page 29; a selection of my short poems appears on page 30.

Thank you again, Bryony, for introducing me to to the wonderful creative community of Indie Writers’ Digest!



*Depeche Mode.*

And Hinds and Buzzy Lee and Paul Russell, more recently.  I’d name Ethel Cain, but her stuff typically isn’t stuff you can dance to.

The funny thing is that I myself dance exactly like the girl pictured.



The Creativity Webzine features “Roanoke Summer Midnight”

I am thrilled tonight to see The Creativity Webzine in Germany publish my poem “Roanoke Summer Midnight.”

The theme of the May issue is “History,” and my poem is meant as an homage to the spiritual, natural and architectural history of my adopted home, rural Southwest Virginia.   You can find it at the link below:

The Arts Section of The Creativity Webzine

Thanks to Editor-in-Chief Charles E. J. Moulton for allowing me to see my work showcased within this wonderful creative community.



The Roanoke Typewriter Sales Company

This is probably the most visually interesting building I’ve found here in Roanoke, Virginia — the Roanoke Typewriter Sales Company on Campbell Avenue.  It’s just past the east edge of downtown, on the other side of the tracks, in the shadow of the overpass.  It has a quasi-wedge shape that’s hemmed in closely at the rear by adjacent train tracks, and at its top is a billboard like a great, garish tiara.

If this isn’t the setting for a short story, I don’t know what is.

(May 2025.)



There’s another trailer out for “28 Years Later.”

Actually, it’s been out for a while now.  It again makes use of Rudyard Kipling’s “Boots.”  (I do mean the poem by that title; none of the actors are wearing the man’s actual boots.)



Throwback Thursday: the 1994 Commencement Program for Mary Washington College.

Thanks to AluMeredith for the image.  🙂



Maybe he’s practicing for a garage band?

People are funny.  This is admittedly a terrible picture, but what you see is a nocturnal lone trombone player tonight in the parking level of Virginia Tech School of Medicine building (by Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital).

Hey, man — more power to you.  Practice your art wherever you can.



Not sure if this meme is too Darko not …