The past year was the best ever for poetry and commentary, with publications in the United States, Britain, Ireland, Germany, India and Bangladesh — along with a short story publication in Chile.
You can find all the links to my 2025 poetry and commentary at the link below. Thanks for coming along for the ride. 🙂
I’m so happy to share here tonight that the Poetry Hall quarterly bilingual journal again published three of my poems today in Issue 30. The poems selected were “Milky Way Haiku” (“银河俳句”), “Demurring Haiku” (“谦拒俳句”) and “Blood-Moon Haiku” (“血月俳句”). As always, they appear in the journal in both English and Chinese.
You can find Issue 30 right here at Amazon.
Thank you, once again, to Editor-in-Chief Xu Yingcai and translator Zhang Ning for allowing me to see my writing appear in this distinguished international literary journal!
OH MY GOD, I FORGOT TO WANG CHUNG TONIGHT; everybody was told to do it.
Signing a book for a friend. 🙂
This just in … AI developing targeted spam for authors is a goddam nightmare.
You can develop an ear for it pretty quickly — the language it employs has its own unique blandness to it. But, because I am often slow on the uptake, I thought these flattering e-mails were legit. (And it was a heady feeling to suddenly discover mysterious critics praising some very specific aspects of my writing from more than a decade ago.)
Now the problem is the frequency of these e-mails themselves. Maybe it’s just and end-of-the-year thing, but I got two in the last two hours, and they have a knack for fooling spam filters.
We never got the Westworld hotbots or Ron Moore’s chic, uber-cool cylons, but technology gave us this shit? We got robbed.
Why does everything have to be awful? Sorry. I’m in a mood.
Raise your hand if you think Haiku AF would be a great name for a literary magazine.
I’m ecstatic! The Galway Review today published my poem “Where Would We Go?” — and also selected it for its next anthology, The Galway Review 14.
You can find the poem at The Galway Review online right here.
The anthology will be released in April 2026; I’ll post purchasing details when they become available.
The Galway Review is the leading literary magazine for Galway, the fourth largest city in the Republic of Ireland. It features contemporary reviews, fiction, non-fiction, poetry and photography, and seeks to publish work that is “beautiful and different.”
I am once again grateful to Managing Editor Ndrek Gjini and his colleagues for allowing me to see my work showcased by this important literary resource for Northern Europe and beyond.
I submitted a poem to a new journal; I got a somewhat terse rejection letter. Then, just to underscore the point, they sent me the same rejection letter a day later. Sort of an encore-type thing.
Then, finally, I get an e-mail welcoming me to “The Sub Club” asking me if I “Want Attention.” I swear I am not making this up.
Not even gonna touch that one.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 