I hope you will all join me in congratulating Adele Evershed as Spillwords Press Author of the Month for November 2023.
(Thanks also to those of you who voted for me, as I was a nominee as well. I am flattered if you did so.) 🙂
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That awesome day when your Twin Sister sends you “writer fuel.”
Nobody tell her that I am just sitting here stuffing my face and watching “The Zombie Diaries” (2006). (It’s been a long day, people.)
Three of my poems are featured in Impspired Issue 26.
I am absolutely honored today to see three of my poems published in Issue 26 of Impspired in the United Kingdom. The three poems are “At the Coffee Shop,” “Autumn Girl” and “A Poet’s Short Note to His Muse.”
You can find all three poems right here. The print edition will be released at the end of January.
Thanks once again to Editor Steve Cawte for allowing me to see my work appear in such an outstanding independent literature magazine!
The (Renovated) Arena Stage.
So this is the Arena Stage in Washington D.C., these days. I saw a play there as a college student in 1994 or so. (There was a major renovation and expansion project since my days at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.)
I don’t even remember which production we saw, to be honest with you. (I’m pretty sure it was Shakespeare.) But I remember that the trip seemed exciting. Fredericksburg really was just a mid-sized town back in the 1990’s. Going into Washington D.C. at night with about 100 other theater students to see a live production felt like a pretty big deal.
And the trip and the show were a blast.
Photo credit: Ron Cogswell, 2011
Photo credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTAobYSR5k&list=FLEjGv3WZw134CN_yJVg3_Hg&index=1143
You need to watch “The Fall of the House of Usher” (2023).
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (2023) is goddam terrific. I have never thanked a college buddy as enthusiastically for inviting me to watch his Netflix with him.
It’s unflinching and unfailingly loving of its Edgar Allan Poe source material. (The eight-episode miniseries actually draws from a number of Poe’s works — not just the eponymous 1839 short story.) The acting is top-notch — particularly from leads Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood and
Mary McDonnell. The dialogue is priceless. And it is genuinely scary! (Yes, a lot of us really love Poe, but you must admit that it is challenging to make his works fresh and truly frightening to a modern audience.)
I almost said that I loved it more than “The Haunting of Hill House” (2018), another superb horror miniseries by director Mike Flanagan that employs much of the same cast. “The Fall of the House of Usher” can be considered an unofficial sequel to both the 2018 miniseries and 2020’s “The Haunting of Bly Manor.”
My heart still belongs to Hill House, though — although “The Fall of the House of Usher” is Flanagan’s best, in some ways, I think “Hill House” tells more a human story, with redeeming, realistic characters that we genuinely worry over.
“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a close second, though.
Just a reminder …
If you’d care to vote for me for Spillwords Press Author of the Month for November, you can do so right here.
🙂
Eric Robert Nolan nominated for Spillwords Press “Author of the Month” for November.
I’m honored to share here that some nice person in the Spillwords Press community has nominated me for “Author of the Month” for November 2023. Spillwords Press has of course published a number of my poems — most recently they featured my short poem, “Blue.”
If you would like to vote for me, you may do so right here.
Voting takes place from now to November 29th. (Please note that you would need to register and log in if you wish to vote.)
Thanks! 🙂
“Nothing” included in Scars Publications’ 2024 Poetry Review Date Book!
I got some really nice news a little while ago — Scars Publications has included my short poem “Nothing” in its 2024 Poetry Review Date Book. (The poem was originally published by Scars this past August in Down in the Dirt magazine — and then again the following month in the Casting Off poetry anthology.)
The 2024 Poetry Review Date Book is a weekly planner that includes short poems and artwork from both Down in the Dirt and its sister publication, cc&d magazine. You can purchase it right here at Amazon for just $14.99.
Thanks once again to Editor Janet Kuypers for including my work in another outstanding Scars book. 🙂
The struggle is real.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 